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MARRIAGE 

AND 

RACE  DEATH 


The  Foundations  of  an 
Intelligent  System  of  Marriage 


BY 

MORRISON  I.  SWIFT 


NEW  YORK 

The  Morrison  I.  Swift  Press 
1906 


CONTENTS 

Chapter  Page 

I    Introduction           .                 .        .        .  1 

II    Inflexible  Marriage        ...  10 

III  Social  Structure  and  Sacred  Family   .  16 

IV  The  Brothel ,  Trust        ....  23 

Society's  Organized  War  on  Girls  24 
How  the  Rich  Breed  and  Ghiard 

Sexual  Vice        .  28 

Clerical  Fireworks  for  the  Home  .  32 

V    Feminization  of  Industry     .          .         .  35 

VI    The  Salvation  Pauper  Army         .         .  50 

VII    Voluntary  Dying  of  Population           .  54 

VIII     Race  Decay  Through  Patriotism          .  64 

IX    Origin  of  Belly  Billionaires          .         .  71 

X    American  Race  Reversion     ...  79 

ly/XI    The  American  Greed-Breed  and  Sterility  91 

XII    One  Despot  Brain  Attribute         .        .  101 

XIII  Wealth  as  Vital  Evolution  Nutriment  109 

Tapeworm  Philosophy           .        .  114 

XIV  Race  Nutrition:  a  New  Inalienable  Right  120 
XV    Race  Effect  of  a  Physiological  Lie       ,  124 


CONTENTS 

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XVI  The  American  Brain     ....  182 

XVII  Unique  Cases  of  Brain  Lack        .        .  150 

XVIII  Toadyism  of  the  American  Brain         .  165 

XIX  Is  the  Wealth  Contract  with  the  Rich 

Valid? 173 

XX  Do  the  Rich  Burn  Wealth?  .        .  179 

XXI  The  Race  Aim  of  Sex  ...  184 

XXII  Do  We  Live  in  a  Social  Sewer?  .  187 

XXIII  Higher  Brain  and  Revolution      .         .  209 

XXV  Should  the  Rich  Be  Personally  Hated  ?  225 

XXV  Emasculation  of  the  Universe      .         .  219 

XXVI  This  Republic's  Defense  of  Wealth 

Waste 234 

XXVII  Paying  Robbers 238 

XXVIII  Our  Degenerate  Aristocracy         .         .  246 

XIX  How  to  Restore  the  Race     .         .        .  255 

XXX  The  Morality  of  Social  War         .         .  263 

XXXI  The  Impossibility  of  Marriage     .        .  266 


MARRIAGE  AND  RACE  DEATH. 


CHAPTER    I. 

INTRODUCTION. 

We  are  learning  that  we  may  hope  for  unlimited 
improvement  in  everything,  that  Change  is  the  law  and 
that  the  most  abiding  things  will  yield  to  it.  We  can 
tie  to  nothing,  and  this  is  our  difference  from  the  old 
habit  of  mind  which  felt  the  need  of  a  fixed  rock;  we 
of  the  modern  world  must  deliver  our  minds  from 
attachment  to  persistent  forms. 

But  science  itself  is  slow  and  reactionary,  being  still 
dominated  by  old  and  false  notions  of  nature.  Scien- 
tific men  are  not  trained  to  love  advancement  passion- 
ately, they  are  trained  to  indifference,  they  are  schooled 
to  the  idea  that  Nature  is  Inevitableness,  that  man  must 
Lear  prodigious  evils  and  can  only  chip  off  a  little  of 
his  cursing  load  from  age  to  age. 

This  view  is  false.  Man  can  drop  the  greater  part 
of  his  huge  burden  by  one  act.  He  need  not  wait 
millenniums  or  generations  for  Evolution  to  change  his 
state  or  his  nature,  but  can  alter  both  by  choice  with 
the  suddenness  of  cataclysm  yet  with  the  peacefulness 
of  growth.  The  scientific  conceit  that  has  done  more 
harm  than  all  others  combined  is  the  doctrine  that 
Evolution  is  Slowness.  This  is  an  invaluable  theory  to 
those  who  want  no  evolution;  it  is  invaluable  to  the 

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selfish  and  lazy;  it  is  priceless  for  the  iniquitous  who 
solemnly  see  in  it  nature's  sweet  plan  for  them  to  tram- 
ple on  others.  But  the  doctrine  is  flatly  false.  Society 
may  put  itself  through  a  sudden  and  vast  transforma- 
tion with  the  greatest  ease,  leaping  over  vast  chasms  of 
misery  which  accompany  slow  evolution,  without  touch- 
ing them.  This  should  be  the  object  of  men.  It  permits 
and  compels  the  rejection  of  most  of  our  theories  of  life, 
which  is  good  since  they  are  mostly  excuses  for  inaction. 
All  theories  founded  on  the  doctrine  that  evolution  must 
be  slow  are  unworthy. 

What  is  the  secret  of  this  great  power  which  man- 
kind has  never  used?  It  is  the  same  that  enables  an 
imaginary  paralytic  to  walk  and  be  well.  This  kind 
of  a  patient  has  the  full  physical  ability  to  move  but 
does  not  know^  it,  and  the  secret  of  cure  is  to  teach  him 
that  fact.  There  is  a  most  simple  shifting  of  ideas  like 
stage  scenery  in  his  brain.  So  mankind  is  paralyzed 
by  a  false  estimate  of  its  strength  and  needs  a  shifting 
of  thoughts  to  realize  its  might.  No  new  power  is  added 
but  a  terrific  latent  force  is  set  free.  The  dogma  that 
evolution  is  slow  is  a  disease  of  the  imagination,  causing 
race  paralysis. 

Believing  religiously  in  his  impotence  man  attempts 
little  and  leaves  unused  some  of  the  most  potent  agencies 
for  his  uplifting.  The  sentiment  of  sacredness  is  also 
his  great  enemy.  As  man  has  it,  only  the  old  is  sacred ; 
in  truth  most  of  the  old  is  evil  and  only  what  is  found 
to  be  good  at  this  moment,  all  apart  from  its  connection 
with  the  past,  is  sacred.  A  man's  principle  should  be 
7  relinquish  the  past.  This  means  that  we  reject  all 
that  the  past  has  built  up,  all  that  frowning  and  mali- 


INTRODUCTION  3 

cious  fabric  of  institution  which  reduces  us  to  nothing. 
When  we  despise  all  this  fossil  architecture  of  human 
society,  builded  upon  mendacious  theories,  we  begin  to 
comprehend  our  own  mammoth  strength. 

We  have  the  problem  of  building  up  in  ourselves  a 
new  consciousness.  How  can  we  do  it  if  we  continue 
to  carry  the  load  of  the  old  consciousness?  The  old 
consciousness  proves  itself  by  its  works :  it  is  impotent — 
why  then  carry  the  load  of  it?  We  beat  our  brains  to 
answer  and  can  only  say,  Because  it  is  sacred.  Is  that 
which  makes  us  impotent  sacred?  But  it  is  connected 
with  God.  Is  anything  connected  with  God  holy  if  it 
makes  us  impotent?  It  is  religion.  Is  religion  good  if 
it  makes  us  impotent?  Our  old  consciousness  is  a  part 
of  God.  Is  it  good  if  it  makes  us  impotent?  It  is  God 
himself.  Is  it  good  if  it  makes  us  impotent?  Is  it  good 
to  have  a  God  if  he  makes  us  impotent? 

A  consciousness  that  is  not  impotent  must  throw  over 
the  load  of  the  old  consciousness.  The  old  edifice  of  mind 
was  built  on  the  theory  of  man's  sin  and  helplessness, 
the  new  one  will  rise  about  the  certainty  of  his  power. 
Whatever  we  retain  from  the  past  will  impede  the  forma- 
tion of  the  new  consciousness  structure.  Who  would 
attempt  to  build  a  new  house  on  the  ground  where  an 
old  one  had  fallen  without  removing  the  rubbish?  I 
affirm  that  the  old  house  of  consciousness  has  fallen, 
because  of  its  works.  Look  about  at  the  degradation  of 
human  beings,  of  human  society :  these  are  the  works  of 
the  old  consciousness.  So  this  fallen  consciousness  with 
its  impotence-making  elements  must  go. 

Marriage  as  it  prevails  in  civilization  is  one  of  these 
elements,  and  the  vital  query  is  what  a  consciousness 


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freed  of  its  imaginary  paralysis  will  develop  in  its  place. 
This  can  not  be  answered  or  even  guessed  at  by  abstract- 
ing marriage  from  the  social  welter  which  the  old  mind 
has  brewed,  marriage  is  a  substantial  ingredient  of  this 
welter.  We  must  forecast  intelligent  marriage  or  union 
of  the  sexes  by  considering  what  an  intelligent  society 
will  be,  and  for  that  we  need  to  inquire  step  by  step  in 
what  our  present  society  is  unintelligent.  Marriage 
as  we  use  it  is  one  of  the  threads  of  the  rope  with 
which  civilized  society  hangs  itself.  Yet  there  is  a 
rational  alliance  of  the  sexes :  what  is  it?  Tell  me  what 
the  aim  of  a  rational  human  society  would  be  and  the 
answer  will  be  contained  in  it.  In  this  book  I  seek  the 
foundations  of  a  rational  conception  of  the  purpose  of 
human  life. 

All  through  it  runs  a  confidence  in  man's  unlimited 
power.  The  worse  I  show  man's  present  mind  and 
condition  to  be,  the  more  I  believe  in  his  power  of  perfec- 
tion. This  sense  of  the  power  of  perfection  is  the 
greatest  thought  we  can  have.  It  leaves  love  in  the 
shade.  Love  without  perfection  has  a  poison.  I  am 
therefore  an  optimist  even  as  I  thread  my  way  through 
the  slums  and  hells  of  civilization.  For  the  sane  revo- 
lutionist goes  to  these  places  as  the  doctor  does  into 
the  furnaces  of  plague,  to  clean  them  out.  And  I  am 
a  revolutionist  with  all  my  soul.  I  know  no  way  to 
puncture  the  smuggery  of  the  civilized  but  with  revolu- 
tion ;  I  know  no  way  to  get  new  bottles  but  by  breaking 
the  old  ones.  And  I  consider  every  institution  that  we 
have  an  old  bottle.  Yes,  every  one. 

Believing  in  the  power  of  perfection,  I  exalt  the  power 
of  the  individual  tremendously.     Yet  all  human  influ* 


INTRODUCTION  5 

ences  conspire  to  teach  him  impotence  and  bind  him 
with  fiction  cobweb  chains.  Fates,  destinies,  religions, 
moralities,  theories,  are  the  booted  slave-drivers  that 
rawhide  man  if  he  ever  attempts  to  think  himself  a  man. 
Yet  he  is  one  down  underneath  and  when  he  learns 
it  his  spiritual  bullies  will  run.  He  is  trod  on  to  death 
by  material  bullies  because  the  bullies  of  imagination 
cow  him. 

Believing  in  individual  man's  transcendent  strength, 
I  disbelieve  the  theory  that  society  must  work  out  in 
any  certain  way,  guided  by  evolutionary  forces.  We 
have,  for  example,  capitalism,  and  some  believe  that 
we  must  inevitably  proceed  to  the  higher  form,  socialism. 
I  do  not  acknowledge  the  must.  Society  may  evolve 
into  a  higher  form,  and  it  may  not.  It  depends  on  what 
intelligent  individuals  voluntarily  do.  Not  even  capi- 
talism with  its  debauchery  of  mankind  was  necessary: 
it  came  through  the  laziness  of  the  intelligent,  who 
permitted  and  therefore  caused  it.  Certitude  that  some 
divine,  natural,  or  historical  cosmic  impulse,  or  what 
you  will,  is  irresistibly  forging  society  into  a  higher 
form  is  the  fool's  paradise  of  the  simple-minded  Chris- 
tian Scientist.  The  theories  of  life  and  human  power 
held  by  men  go  very  far  to  determine  how  evolution 
will  proceed. 

And  at  all  times,  I  maintain,  there  have  been  theories 
of  life  extant  very  much  in  advance  of  men's  acts.  They 
were  theories  that  might  have  been  acted  on  then  and 
would  have  changed  the  course  and  destiny  of  the  world. 
They  were  rejected  from  no  psychic  compulsion,  but 
from  a  species  of  moral  laziness  over  which  their  holders 
had  control.  Man,  therefore,  had  the  full  power  at  all 


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times  to  be  different  He  could  have  initiated  at  all 
times  better  than  he  did,  despite  the  composition  of 
body,  brain,  soul,  nature,  necessity,  or  fate,  which  or  in 
which  he  was.  Especially,  there  were  ever  a  certain 
number  of  higher  individuals  competent  to  initiate  much 
better  than  they  did,  and  on  them  the  greater  blame 
rests.  They  compromised.  They  compounded  with  their 
higher  natures  and  established  the  principle  of  compro- 
mise. This  was  brain  emasculation,  deliberate  self- 
degradation.  It  was  the  pitiful  act  of  discharging  able 
soldiers  from  the  world's  battle  and  taking  cripples  in 
their  place.  Each  man  who  compromised  trampled 
elements  of  his  ability  out.  This  folly  became  the  ven- 
erated human  method:  the  higher  made  a  business  of 
carving  off  their  best  intelligence  and  throwing  it  away 
in  compliance  with  the  lowness  of  the  lower. 

In  this  is  the  cause  of  the  amazingly  poor  human 
progress.  If,  then,  the  race  is  to  do  better  in  future  it 
will  be  through  each  unit  holding  himself  up  to  his 
highest  ideas  without  shadow  of  concession.  He  will  be 
deaf  to  the  idle  talk  of  inherent  forces  working  for  good, 
whether  it  comes  from  scientist,  Christian  or  revolu- 
tionist: the  inherent  forces  are  solely  in  himself  and 
other  selfs,  and  what  happens  will  tally  line  on  line  with 
their  intelligence  and  efforts. 

The  maxim  of  the  compromiser  is  "Men  are  not  ready 
for  all  the  truth  I  have:  to  do  them  good  I  must  give 
them  small  adulterated  doses  or  they  will  reject  all/' 
On  the  contrary,  mankind  is  waiting  and  thirsting  for 
all  the  truth  all  men  have.  The  maxim  is  the  morphine 
habit  of  the  intelligent.  It  is  easier  and  safer  to  hide 
your  light,  and  if  all  hiders  agree  to  call  skulking  wise 


INTRODUCTION  7 

and  cowardice  brave,  none  will  dare  despise  a  fellow 
shirk. 

The  compromise  habit  has  wrought  the  triumph  of 
effeminacy  and  produced  several  sciences  of  lies.  Social 
Science,  Political  Economy,  Sociology,  and  Morals,  are 
four  of  these  sciences.  They  are  the  works  of  men  and 
sons  of  men  who  have  compromised  so  long  that  they 
are  mentally  incapable  of  knowing  or  telling  social 
truth.  Their  habits  of  compromise-lying  they  have  named 
with  the  grand  name  Science,  as  when  the  coward 
christens  his  cowardice  Bravery  to  make  himself  digni- 
fied. True  science  is  indeed  a  great  thing,  but  how  is  it 
possible  for  these  weavers  of  untruths  to  attach  them- 
selves to  it  like  barnacles  and  disgrace  it? 

The  explanation  is  this.  In  physical  science  emotion 
directly  or  indirectly  plays  but  little  part.  If  science 
can  prove  that  the  human  egg  can  be  fertilized  chemically 
there  is  the  end  of  it,  and  perhaps  the  end  of  man :  there 
is  no  use  of  anger,  for  fact  is  fact.  But  in  social  science 
anger  is  of  great  use.  If  4,000  men  possess  themselves 
of  a  country  of  eighty  or  ninety  million  people  and  con- 
duct it  like  a  cotton  plantation,  the  writer  of  a  true 
social  science  will  have  to  say  that  these  men  are  thieves 
and  slave-holders.  His  saying  so  is  bare  truth,  chaste  of 
emotion,  and  calm  as  chemistry.  It  is  science.  But 
because  it  is  truth  it  is  mortally  insulting  to  the  4,000 
owners  of  workers  and  scientists.  By  anger  they  can 
repress  these  truth  tellers.  They  own  all  the  bread-chairs 
in  the  United  States  and  they  can  turn  all  real  scientists 
and  truth  tellers  into  tramps.  They  do  it. 

They  do  it  very  deftly.  They  say  of  the  truth  teller, 
"He  is  not  scientific,  he  is  immoderate,  he  exaggerates,  he 


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is  violent,  he  is  bitter,  he  is  emotional."  Now  why  is 
truth,  which  is  so  harmless  in  physical  science,  so  terrible 
in  social  science  that  it  is  declared  tin-scientific,  and  its 
speakers  stigmatized  as  emotional?  It  is  because  the 
truth  about  society  when  spoken  causes  such  an  inflam- 
mation of  hate  in  the  4,000  owrners  of  society  that  it 
spreads  over  the  whole  body,  and  the  lighters  of  such  a 
fire  may  very  well  be  called  emotional  because  they  start 
so  fierce  an  emotion.  But  this  is  to  confuse  cause  and 
effect.  The  tellers  of  the  fact  may  even  be  as  calm  as  ice 
while  the  rest  rave. 

Compromisers  prefer  slavery  to  social  emotion,  but 
the  sole  means  of  progress  is  speaking  truth.  The  truth 
about  modern  society  cannot  be  told  in  the  effeminate 
language  of  compromisers.  A  robber  is  a  robber,  a  mur- 
derer a  murderer,  a  consumer  of  the  weak  is  a  human 
fiend — it  is  scientific  to  call  them  so  and  unscientific 
not  to.  But  compromisers  draw  the  line  at  calling  men 
robbers,  murderers,  or  fiends,  if  they  are  rich.  Scien- 
tifically speaking  with  them  a  poor  thief  is  a  thief,  a  rich 
thief  is  a  "victim  of  his  environment,"  a  "financier,"  a 
thing  "any  of  us  would  like  to  be  if  he  could" — there- 
fore not  a  thief. 

In  the  following  pages  words  are  used  that  describe 
facts.  If  rattlesnakes  are  loose  in  the  room  it  is  a  dan- 
gerous error  to  call  them  kittens  to  avoid  exciting  people. 
Is  it  impossible  that  a  box  of  rattlesnakes  are  loose  in 
American  society?  There  are  many  who  think  it  dis- 
gusting to  study  diseases  closely,  as  unrelenting  objective 
science  requires.  I  once  saw  a  professional  esthete 
pause  at  the  door  of  a  biological  laboratory  and  sink 
against  the  casement  with  the  utterance,  How  disgust- 


INTRODUCTION  9 

ing!  and  he  refused  to  enter.  But  when  an  epidemic  of 
yellow  fever  invades  a  country  the  entire  body  of  igno- 
rant and  esthetic  hurry  to  place  themselves  under  the 
protection  of  those  whose  disgusting  tastes  led  them  to 
patiently  analyze  the  disease  to  its  cause  for  the  pur- 
pose of  saving  lives. 

One  who  studies  social  diseases  in  the  true  spirit  of 
research  to-day  is  like  the  physician  in  the  centuries 
when  it  was  a  sacrilege  to  probe  below  the  skin  of  the 
human  body  for  its  anatomy.  In  those  days  of  igno- 
rance filth  could  accumulate  in  Europe  until  a  plague 
could  sweep  off  half  the  population.  The  highest  need 
of  modern  society  as  leading  to  its  purification  is  a  true 
anatomy  of  itself.  That  I  seek  to  give  in  this  volume. 
Upon  the  basis  of  this  study  methods  for  building  a 
better  race  on  higher  foundations  can  be  defined. 


CHAPTER  II. 

INFLEXIBLE   MARRIAGE. 

One  of  the  most  revered  institutions  of  civilized  life 
in  theory  is  the  family.  A  man  wedded  to  one  woman 
for  life  and  death  with  children  about  them  is  thought 
to  be  an  ideal  with  no  flaws  in  it  but  man's  sinfulness. 
Though  this  rigid  marriage  system  causes  many  to 
suffer,  if  the  system  is  right  why  should  mere  suffering 
divert  us  from  it?  Some  would  permit  no  divorce; 
some  would  go  even  higher,  considering  it  most  godly 
and  godlike  not  to  marry;  and  some,  while  not  averse 
to  divorce,  would  not  suffer  the  divorced  to  remarry 
others.  Total  marriage  abstainers  have  dwindled  with 
time,  though  the  stamp  of  their  austerity  is  legible  on 
the  apostles  of  marriage  immutability. 

In  the  most  clarified  circles  a  divorced  woman  even 
when  blameless  forever  after  carries  a  certain  taint,  the 
majesty  of  marriage  requiring  a  sacrifice  of  the  innocent 
to  warn  the  wicked  from  letting  the  world  know  their 
wickedness.  So  shameful  is  divorce  that  it  is  thought 
sweeter  to  ruin  the  lives  of  sundry  stainless  women 
than  to  tarnish  the  idea  of  a  superb  institution.  If  we 
venture  to  ask  the  rigorist  if  the  divorced  may  not  find 
in  remarriage  the  happiness  missed  in  their  first  mis- 
take, they  tell  us  that  marriage  errors  are  final  and 

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fatal,  that  the  victims  had  their  chance,  and  that  human 
happiness  is  not  a  very  important  matter,  anyway. 
Institutions  are  the  great  thing;  men  and  women  are 
established  to  perpetuate  them. 

To  sustain  these  lofty  ideals  an  unmarried  Catholic 
lady  in  New  York  has  founded  an  Ostracism  Society 
with  the  approval  of  the  pope,  which  provides  that  "the 
Catholic  divorcee  who  remarries  excommunicates  her- 
self, and  must  be  socially  ostracised."  In  Omaha  a 
number  of  "rich"  Catholics  attended  the  fashionable 
society  Avedding  of  two  non-Catholics,  one  of  whom 
had  been  divorced,  and  the  Catholic  bishop  promptly 
excommunicated  his  disobedient  parishioners,  having 
previously  warned  them.  Such  is  the  feeling  and  policy 
of  the  marriage  extremists. 

We  have  not  yet  outgrown  abstract,  universal  and 
immutable  laws.  We  care  for  empty  formal  law  and 
reck  little  its  wide  consequences.  And  this  impulse  to 
universalize  and  sanctify  every  elderly  custom  places 
the  halo  of  unchangeableness  upon  marriage  and  hides 
the  fallacy  at  its  core.  Formerly  believers  in  holy  mat- 
rimony stood  together  on  the  same  ground  in  the 
Catholic  church;  now  there  are  several  churches  each 
with  its  own  opinion,  and  a  large  group  outside  of  all 
churches  with  its  opinion  on  this  theme.  Now  if  the 
marriage  moral  law  is  so  lucid  and  stubbornly  perma- 
nent, how  can  they  differ  so  exceedingly  about  it?  Men 
have  changed  their  minds  in  the  course  of  centuries  and 
this  change  annuls  the  absoluteness  of  the  marriage  law 
as  a  whole.  If  they  were  not  originally  right  it  is 
impudent  to  say  they  are  right  in  their  absoluteness 
now. 


12  MARRIAGE    AND    RACE    DEATH 

Moral  Law  itself  through  this  fact  loses  its  terrible 
and  domineering  dignity,  being  stripped  of  the  colossal 
shafts  universality,  unalterability  and  necessity.  It  is  a 
boon  to  mankind  to  take  this  awf  ulness  out  of  the  moral 
law.  Having  been  a  gigantean  monster  which  man 
could  neither  tame  nor  harness,  trampling  over  the  race 
for  dread  centuries,  it  becomes  fairly  loving  and  do- 
mestic, capable  of  change,  development  and  service. 
Intelligence  is  the  true  eternal  law.  It  searches  ever  for 
better  ways  and  is  ever  changing;  it  is  not  absolute  and 
old  but  is  spontaneous  and  new.  The  variable  reason 
of  individuals  is  its  centre,  morality  and  the  moral  law 
are  bulletins  from  it  They  are  blackboards  on  which 
its  pronunciamentos  are  written  in  chalk,  to  be  rubbed 
out  later  as  intelligence  expands. 

Religion,  as  almost  universal  manager  in  the  past, 
managed  marriage.  Human  progress  has  almost  con- 
sisted of  withdrawing  one  thing  after  another  from  re- 
ligion's tentacles.  Unluckily,  progress  turned  what  it 
wrested  from  Religion  over  to  the  State,  which  is  not 
under  guidance  of  Intelligence,  but  of  private  greed,  and 
the  state  has  managed  things  much  as  religion  did. 
Marriage  was  religiously  juggled  with  on  the  principle 
of  an  Absoluteness  called  divine  law,  whose  essence  was 
inflexibility,  and  this  shrine  religion  garlanded  as  beauty 
and  perfection.  It  was  neither,  and  no  divine  law  ex- 
isted in  the  premises,  but  the  State  took  religion's  cue 
and  adopted  its  deity,  which  is  in  everything,  All  the 
Inflexibility  the  people  will  bear.  The  state  reposes 
on  Law,  which  is  blunt  indiscriminate  inflexibility. 
Religion  naturally  crowds  the  state  hard  to  make  it 
absolute  as  to  marriage,  but  the  state  is  cheerfully  abso- 


INFLEXIBLE    MARRIAGE  13 

lute.  But  here  instantly  we  run  against  the  frightful 
flaw  that  modern  religion  is  a  thing  of  split  tatters  and 
shreds,  every  particular  tatter-sect  of  it  calling  its  abso- 
lute the  universal  one,  denouncing  every  other  atomic 
sect-absolute  as  a  fraud — so  that  the  whole  theory  of 
absolutes  and  universals  breaks,  and  no  absolute  has  a 
leg  to  stand  on.  And  the  State  fails  in  its  claims  as 
fantastically,  being  shredded  into  a  multitude  of  dis- 
sonant sects  on  all  subjects,  and  being  not  governed  by 
Intelligence.  On  marriage  it  is  a  convocation  of  warring 
absolutes,  showing  like  religion  that  none  is  sound. 

This  battle  of  assertions  clears  the  mist,  displaying 
authority  as  impotent  because  of  its  many-headedness, 
each  head  as  pontifically  supreme  as  the  rest,  So,  tossing 
authority  to  the  waves,  marriage  is  to  be  studied  like 
anything  else,  freely,  with  an  open  spirit,  without  rever- 
ence for  what  people  ever  did  or  said. 

We  first  wonder  if  it  was  a  needed  discipline  for  man 
to  pass  through  this  long,  rigid  and  dismal  session  under 
universal  inviolable  law  regarding  the  sexes,  and  doubt 
it  Did  it  subordinate  passion  and  help  the  higher  brain 
centres  to  grow  in  competition  with  the  passional  brain 
tracts?  Was  rigor  effective?  This  we  shall  study. 
Rigor  generally  pits  itself  against  two  things — abuses, 
and  intelligence;  whence  its  failures  and  catastrophes. 
Ecclesiastical  marriage  rigor  claims  to  have  taught  hu- 
man sanctity  and  to  have  raised  the  estimate  of  person- 
ality until  people  are  somewhat  sensible  of  its  value :  but 
there  is  no  debate  against  the  fact  that  within  ecclesi- 
astical marriage,  license  has  always  been  free.  One 
obedient  to  the  public  proprieties  of  marriage  may  give 
his  passions  the  maddest  rampage  at  home  without  re- 


14  MARRIAGE    AND    RACE    DEATH 

ligious  sin.  Extensive  debauch  has  often  been  turned 
into  intensive  debauch,  with  neither  warning  nor  censure 
from  church,  state,  school  or  medical  craft.  In  fact,  pro- 
vided men  mate  ecclesiastically,  it  has  seemed  that  later 
and  physically  deadly  acts  mattered  neither  to  humanity 
nor  divinity.  They  only  mattered  to  Nature,  who  as 
usual  coolly  slaughtered  individuals  for  their  sacred 
ignorance  of  her.  This  nearly  universal  conjugal  de- 
bauchery has  not  tended  to  fertilize  the  higher  brain 
spheres  of  personality,  and  we  must  locate  the  blame 
honestly — on  the  marriage  system.  The  husk  of  outer 
form,  sordid  superficial  ceremony,  stickling  sameness, 
pestilent  absoluteness,  interest  the  marriage  system,  not 
the  inner  vital  essence  of  sex  union. 

And  society  is  brazenly  and  shamelessly  inconsistent 
with  its  marriage  rigor.  A  living  ex-president  had  a 
wife  and  children  in  all  but  the  wedding  recitation.  He 
deserted  them,  married  by  ceremonial  rote,  and  settled 
down  into  one  of  the  respectable  institution-preservers 
of  the  nation,  while  his  ex-family  institution  was  wan- 
dering about,  no  one  knew  or  cared  where.  Worse 
charges  were  made  against  him.  Public  theory  would 
have  required  him  to  marry  the  woman  he  had 
"wronged"  and  make  her  and  his  children  "honest."  If 
he  did  not  he  was  forever  a  marriage-institution 
breaker,  no  matter  how  many  women  he  married 
honestly  afterward.  Saying  nothing  as  to  the  right  or 
wrong  of  his  taking  another  woman  to  wife,  it  went  dead 
against  public  theory  and  decency,  and  the  public  in 
accepting  Cleveland  demolished  and  discarded  its  mar- 
riage doctrine.  The  public  uncovered  the  fact  that  it 
is  an  arrant  marriage  hypocrite. 


INFLEXIBLE    MARRIAGE  15 

What  are  the  chances  of  growth  in  personality  under 
the  tutelage  of  this  stiff  ecclesiastico-civil  marriage 
scheme,  which  evades  the  essence  of  sex  unions  and 
turns  hypocrite  when  convenient?  They  are  to  be 
gauged  by  its  effect  on  lives,  and  that  will  be  our  investi- 
gation. 


CHAPTER  III. 

SOCIAL  STRUCTURE  AND  SACRED  FAMILY. 

When  we  judge  civilized  marriage  by  this  standard, 
its  record  its  not  immaculate.  The  life  union  of  a 
pair  is  defended  as  creating  a  permanent  family,  provid- 
ing best  for  children,  and  securing  a  higher  affection 
than  other  relations  would.  Yet  none  of  these  things  is 
well  done.  In  some  respects  the  civilized  child  is  turned 
loose  into  life  more  helpless  than  any  other  living  crea- 
ture. As  to  sound  and  full  knowledge  of  his  body  he 
is  equipped  rather  as  a  bodiless  spirit  than  as  a  thing 
of  flesh,  brain  and  sex.  He  is  premeditatedly  saturated 
with  ideas  so  false  that  they  kill  all  men  prematurely. 
None  live  their  rightful  time  and  none  can.  The  family 
is  therefore  a  fiasco,  it  does  not  provide  the  children 
with  common  sense,  it  trains  them  in  lies  which  lead 
to  involuntary  suicide,  to  suicide  of  a  sub-bestial  igno- 
rance. 

Family  is  the  latest  form  of  sex  union,  not  the  last 
or  best.  There  is  a  superstition  that  all  other  forms 
are  savage  because  the  savages  have  tried  them  all.  They 
are  not  for  this  reason  low,  but  if  the  results  were 
unhappy  it  may  have  been  because  the  people  using  the 
methods  were  undeveloped,  and  identical  customs  if 
prevailing  in  truly  high  races  might  bear  brilliant  fruit. 

16 


SOCIAL    STRUCTURE    AND  SACRED    FAMILY  17 

The  effect  of  institutions  often  depends  strictly  upon 
the  quality  of  their  practitioners,  low  people  extracting 
only  vicious  and  high  people  elevated  results.  Hence 
it  may  not  be  said  that  we  cannot  vary  from  our  mar- 
riage system  without  relapsing  into  some  archaic  there- 
fore depraved  relation,  for  an  actually  noble  race  (of 
which  there  is  yet  none)  might  adopt  promiscuity  or 
any  savage  system  and  lift  themselves  still  higher  by 
it,  making  it  a  new  system  internally,  though  externally 
the  image  of  the  savage  institution.  By  this  truth 
certain  vociferous  arguments  for  Christian  marriage  as 
highest  are  disposed  of. 

It  can  be  granted  that  the  permanent  union  of  a 
pair  is  the  ideal  relation  for  many,  but  not  that  it  is 
so  for  all;  the  happiness  and  growth  of  another  great 
throng  are  ruptured  and  arrested  by  this  one-sided  mar- 
riage creed.  Nor  can  we  admit  that  the  family  is  in 
any  sense  a  right  basis  for  society  to  rest  on.  It  is 
one  of  the  strongest  existing  fortresses  of  selfishness, 
cutting  a  most  ridiculous  figure  as  a  noble  and  generous 
foundation-stone.  Families  are  totally  selfish  without 
shame ;  fathers  unleash  their  greed  rending  everybody  in 
the  neighborhood  and  throw  up  the  excuse  that  they  do 
it  for  wife  and  children.  Hayen't  those  they  bite  wives 
and  children?  But  mine  have  to  be  supported  or  bedia- 
rnonded.  Do  not  the  wives  of  other  men  have  to  eat? 
The  family  shark  takes  on  that  exquisite  air  of  abnega- 
tion as  he  explains  that  he  snaps  off  competitors'  legs 
out  of  a  holy  and  godlike  love  for  his  own  little  ones; 
that  is  exactly  why  a  father  wolf  takes  human  young 
for  his  little  ones  to  crunch — the  hallowed  family 
instinct  prompts  him  and  ought  to  save  him  from  being 


18  MARRIAGE    AND    RACE    DEATH 

shot.  Yet  in  general  the  human  father's  instinct  is 
about  a  thousand  grades  meaner  than  the  wolf's,  for 
the  civilized  gentleman's  family  is  a  decoration  of  his 
person,  kept  and  garnished  as  a  show-off ;  his  decorated 
wife  and  child  are  brags  of  his  quality  or  money,  as 
his  horses,  motorcar,  rings,  house,  piano  and  swallow- 
tail are;  it  is  for  them  he  benignly  cuts  his  neighbors' 
throats,  not  at  all  to  put  needed  bread  in  hungry  mouths 
or  sane  education  into  desert  brains.  Because  he  has 
this  beloved  family  to  bedeck  or  sustain  he  feels  that 
he  can  righteously  pull  out  the  props  of  others  with 
just  as  beloved  families,  so  that  society  is  intrinsically 
a  dog  fight  of  families.  Isn't  this  rather  a  shaky  sub- 
stratum for  society?  each  unit  of  the  foundation  worm- 
ing to  pull  down  every  other  unit? 

When  brags  are  made  of  the  family  as  the  rock-bed 
of  civilization,  think  of  this.  Bather  is  the  family  the 
hostile  microbe  of  civilization.  As  the  sainted  family 
man  can  never  get  enough  for  his  own  because  his  lumi- 
nous family  love  for  them  is  so  large,  with  peans  to  the 
family  institution  he  snatches  all  he  can  get  from  others 
with  equally  luminous  love  for  theirs,  but  less  tricks 
with  their  spurs  and  claws.  He  may  be  iron-boweled 
against  the  love  claims  of  those  who  are  external  to  his 
domestic  tribe,  unrebuked.  If  the  family  did  not  exist 
as  an  excuse,  probably  four-fifths  of  the  social  selfishness 
would  blaze  out  as  so  brutal  and  shameless,  cowardly, 
contemptible,  unjustifiable  and  damnable,  that  it  would 
be  sternly  quenched.  It  is  wrholly  evil.  It  poisons  every 
family  proprietor,  bloats  him  with  meanness,  and  blots 
all  life.  Happiness  varies  directly  with  intelligence, 
selfishness  inversely  with  it  The  selfish  people  are  in  a 


SOCIAL    STRUCTURE    AND  SACRED    FAMILY  19 

large  sense  the  stupid;  while  the  truly  intelligent  men, 
being  also  the  unselfish,  have  a  greater  happiness.  So 
the  family  as  a  nest-egg  of  selfishness  heavily  augments 
human  pain,  of  which  there  is  naturally  too  much. 

The  family  works  for  unhappiness  in  a  second  way. 
Great  results  are  not  won  when  every  man's  hand  is 
against  every  other's,  but  only  when  they  work  reflect- 
ively and  constructively  together  do  large  things  come 
to  pass.  Now  it  is  hard  to  get  men  immersed  in  the  little 
family  to  widen  their  interest  to  greater  things.  In  some 
cases  the  family  so  absorbs  them  that  no  energy  is  left ; 
in  others,  men  settle  down  to  the  trivial  home  routine 
and  grow  stale  and  contented  with  it;  but  in  the  great 
average  of  men  the  evil  economic  organization  of  society 
so  strains  the  breadwinner  that  he  tramps  his  daily 
treadmill  with  no  spirit  to  lift  his  eyes  and  think  if  the 
situation  might  be  relieved.  He  is  society's  whipped 
pack-ass.  The  blows  fall  on  his  flanks  and  he  only 
groans.  On  the  average  man's  back  the  family  is  a 
burden  that  saps  all  the  vigor  and  valor  of  him.  Though 
their  personal  success  depends  on  the  Tightness  of  the 
economic  and  social  conditions  of  the  country^  and  the 
great  average  mass  can  not  succeed  against  evilly  dis- 
heartening conditions,  family  men  fear  to  face  these 
larger  and  most  vital  questions  lest  they  jeopardize 
their  children's  bread  of  this  day :  they  bow  their  bodies 
and  concentrate  on  their  narrow  toil  and  leave  to  others 
the  arrangement  of  the  general  setting  of  that  toil.  The 
grafting  schemers  do  this  arranging,  in  such  a  manner 
you  may  be  sure  that  they  take  the  meat  and  leave  the 
worn-browed  toilers  the  hair,  husks,  skin  and  hoofs  of 
their  labor.  While  a  census  bureau  could  not  compile  a 


20  MARRIAGE    AND    RACE    DEATH 

fraction  of  the  cases  of  this  economic  stealing  since  our 
Civil  War,  the  insurance  ghouls  of  the  Equitable,  Mu- 
tual, Metropolitan,  New  York  Life,  etc.,  the  Monk  East- 
man McCurdys,  McCalls,  Hegemans,  Hydes,  Perkinses, 
Alexanders  and  Depews,  illustrate  it, 

To  make  a  man  a  poltroon  and  a  slave,  therefore,  get 
him  married.  He  will  then  put  his  face  between  his 
knees  and  dig  and  pray  for  his  daily  bread  while  the 
rich  dance  their  pow-wows  around  him  and  pluck  the 
harvest  of  his  toil  from  his  children's  lips. 

But  now  matters  are  working  out  unexpectedly  and 
dangerously  on  this  score,  when  the  average  riffraff  of 
men  are  asking,  Why  should  we  common  stuff  marry 
and  put  our  heads  in  that  noose?  Or  if  we  marry  why 
child-breed  and  so  place  ourselves  in  the  jaws  of  these 
gentle  gorgons  who  crunch  their  riches  out  of  all  honest 
workers?  So  marriages  and  births  portentously  con- 
tract and  population  is  replenished  by  the  million  age- 
hungry  immigrants  a  year. 

In  whose  coming  the  primary  suckers  on  American 
vitality  rejoice.  "If  I  owned  America  and  was  running 
it  as  a  'business  operation"  said  Carnegie,  that  eminent 
Industrial  Sucker,  "I  would  not  only  look  for  such  men, 
but  I  would  give  them  premiums  to  come  over  and  con- 
sider it  the  best  bargain  I  ever  made.'7  My  dear  Car- 
negie, what  are  you  and  your  pals  doing  but  owning 
America  and  running  it  as  a  business  operation?  These 
immigrants  are  at  present  your  best  investment;  they 
have  assisted  you  to  steal  a  total  billion  dollars  from 
the  American  people;  through  their  presence  you  were 
empowered  to  assassinate  in  brutal  infamy  an  entire 
squad  of  your  poor  devil  slaves  at  Homestead  like  a 


SOCIAL    STRUCTURE    AND    SACRED    FAMILY  21 

very  Czar  because  they  were  not  slavish  enough  to  suit 
your  godlike  majesty;  and  they  have  given  you  wealth 
to  whitewash  your  crime  with  nation-debauching  gifts 
of  pickpocket  plunder: — all  this  works  at  present,  but 
we  shall  consider  in  these  pages  what  the  coming  harvest 
of  it  may  be,  and  I  foretell  the  day  when  the  name  of 
Carnegie  will  be  execrated  by  this  nation  as  Murderer. 

At  present  a  revolution  in  the  character  of  the  popu- 
lation of  this  sort  is  progressing :  those  decent  enough  to 
abhor  having  their  children  mature  as  servile  grooms 
of  the  rich  more  and  more  abstain  from  families;  these 
abstainers  are  the  thoughtful,  spirited  and  better,  whose 
offspring  would  make  for  higher  population;  and  the 
meaner,  stupider,  cravener,  become  the  general  begetters, 
and  the  race  rots. 

The  revolt  against  population  spreads  ever  lower  in 
the  scale  as  the  situation  is  known.  If  it  is  base  and 
even  criminal  to  breed  children  merely  to  make  an  idle 
gentry  rich,  our  people  have  fallen  to  this  depth;  they 
feel  it,  and  such  a  travesty  and  stain  on  human  life  is 
it,  that  the  better  see  it  to  be  only  honorable  to  be  child- 
less. In  older  lands,  population  has  always  cheerfully 
calved  as  food  for  wars  and  landlords;  American  chil- 
dren are  bred  as  food  for  all-debauching  capitalists. 
Black  ignorance  is  the  condition  of  such  breeding,  and 
since  this  ignorance  is  breaking  up,  if  social  conditions 
persist,  mighty  alterations  in  the  nature  of  population 
are  inevitable. 

The  time  is  near  when  population  in  civilized  coun- 
tries will  be  maintained  by  the  breeding  of  the  rotten. 
They  are  unamenable  to  ordinary  social  restraints. 
Physically  and  morally  defective,  forced  to  live  beneath 


22  MARRIAGE    AND    RACE    DEATH 

decency,  they  will  have  little  capacity  of  thought  for 
the  children  they  get,  a  large  section  of  whom  will  be 
illicit;  while  their  families,  where  they  exist,  will  retro- 
gress into  rudimental  forms. 

The  family,  then,  in  the  reigning  economic  state,  is 
contriving  its  own  extinction. 

They  who  would  rescue  the  ideal  principle  of  sex 
union  must  attack  the  social  structure  fundamentally; 
they  must  pronounce  for  a  social  order  in  which  the 
best  can  breed  the  race,  and  rear  it  in  the  best  manner. 
We  should  think  a  priori  that  this  is  what  any  right- 
minded  society  would  do;  but  our  society  is  strenuously 
hostile  to  it.  While  professing  pious  zeal  for  the  fam- 
ily, it  combats  social  changes  to  save  it,  proving  its 
interest  in  that  institution  to  be  an  ill-digested  preju- 
dice, shallow,  greed-governed  and  insincere. 


CHAPTER  IV. 

THE  BROTHEL  TRUST. 

The  proposition  that  society  is  at  heart  callous  to 
the  family  is  open  to  many  proofs.  The  one  I  select 
will  show  that  the  "leading"  and  "respectable"  social 
forces  cultivate  a  social  structure  openly  subversive  not 
only  of  the  family  but  of  an  ideal  union  of  the  sexes; 
it  will  show  that  the  declarations  of  interest  in  family 
purity  flamboyantly  issued  by  the  respectables  are 
meaningless,  and  that  unless  the  respectable  are  uncom- 
monly obtuse  they  do  not  wish  to  "save"  the  family. 

In  Philadelphia  and  other  cities  Eockefellerism  has 
developed  a  Vice  Monopoly,  or  Brothel  Trust.  One  man 
so  organized  the  Philadelphia  Fallen  Women  Industry 
as  to  levy  toll  on  all  the  "disorderly"  houses,  supplying 
both  the  girls  and  police  protection  to  the  trade.  Every 
one  who  opened  a  house  had  to  negotiate  with  the  vice 
magnate,  buy  the  girls  of  him,  and  pay  him  a  regulated 
tax,  or  be  raided  by  the  bluecoats  and  have  his  place 
closed,  getting  a  fine  if  not  jail.  The  system  grew  only 
through  partnership  with  the  Police  Department,  which 
was  purchased  by  the  head  of  the  Brothel  Syndicate  who 
gave  money  and  political  service  to  police  and  city  offi- 
cials up  to  the  highest  for  immunity. 

An  associate  in  the  traffic  of  women  and  girls  named 
Moetz  made  a  confession  of  the  system  as  practised  in 

23 


24  MARRIAGE    AND    RACE    DEATH 

Philadelphia    in    1905,    of   which    the    following   is   a 


SOCIETY'S  ORGANIZED  WAR  ON  GIRLS. 

"Max  Myers  is  the  man  at  the  head  of  the  white  slave 
syndicate.  He  gets  the  girls  for  the  housekeepers.  He 
furnishes  the  police  protection.  He  fits  up  the  houses, 
and  he  is  the  man  that  lends  the  rent  money  to  the 
housekeeper. 

"Myers  had  a  pawnshop  at  Third  and  Buttonwood 
streets  but  his  shop  was  only  a  blind  for  his  trade  in 
girls  and  protection. 

"Anybody  that  wants  to  break  into  the  housekeeping 
business  must  come  prepared  to  fix  things  with  Max 
Myers,  or  he  will  never  open  his  house.  Fellows  who 
have  girls  to  sell  know  Myers,  and  Myers  always  knows 
when  a  new  girl  can  be  sold.  He  does  business  for  house- 
keepers all  over  the  country,  but,  of  course,  he  can  only 
deliver  protection  here. 

"The  situation  is  pretty  much  the  same  everywhere 
[in  every  city].  Here  the  business  is  all  done  through 
one  man,  Myers,  and  no  outsiders  are  allowed  to  push  in. 

"Myers  undertook  to  fix  things  so  that  one  payment 
would  make  everything  right  all  the  way  down  the  line, 
and  after  a  while  he  made  himself  so  strong  with  all 
hands  that  he  was  allowed  to  do  business  for  everybody. 
The  situation  amounted  to  just  this  :  The  people  in  the 
business  were  willing  to  hand  up  their  money  to  Myers, 
and  those  who  had  protection  to  sell  were  ready  to  take 
what  was  coming  to  them  from  him.  What  he  got  from 
each  housekeeper  was  from  $25  to  $75  per  week.  How 


THE     BROTHEL     TRUST  25 

much  of  this  really  went  to  the  police  Myers  knows,  but 
nobody  else  does. 

"Every  applicant  for  a  house  to  keep,  if  his  record 
proved  satisfactory,  was  taken  to  Myers,  who  would 
lease  and  pay  in  advance  for  a  house  and  lay  in  all 
necessary  furniture,  the  cost  of  the  same  to  be  refunded 
to  Myers  in  weekly  instalments  after  the  business  got 
under  way. 

"Myers  always  bought  the  furniture  from  one  dealer, 
who  paid  so  much  for  the  privilege — they  called  it  com- 
missions. It  was  graft  for  Myers.  His  game  was  to 
keep  the  housekeeper  in  debt  as  long  as  possible  and  for 
as  much  as  he  could.  The  poorer  the  housekeeper,  the 
more  he  had  to  pay.  The  housekeeper  never  paid  less 
than  double  the  actual  retail  cost  of  the  furniture. 

"Everybody  that  has  a  privilege  to  sell  stuff  to  the 
girls  must  see  Myers,  and  he  gets  something  out  of  every- 
thing that  is  brought  into  the  houses,  such  as  slot  ma- 
chines, jewelry,  clothing,  marketing,  music  boxes,  rugs 
and  the  like.  He  even  has  something  to  say  about  the 
doctors  to  be  hired  to  look  after  the  girls." 

Members  of  the  syndicate  who  rebel  against  Myers 
are  easily  whipped  back  into  line.  "The  rebel  is  within 
a  day  or  two  called  upon  by  a  couple  of  constables,  who 
place  him  under  arrest  on  the  charge  of  conducting  a 
disorderly  house,  a  speakeasy  or  a  gambling  house. 
When  he  asks  for  time  and  sends  out  for  assistance  he 
finds  that  all  roads  lead  to  Myers,  who  is  always  willing 
to  be  merciful,  but  whose  price  for  mercy  is  invariably 
higher  than  the  rebel  had  been  called  on  to  pay  in  the 
regular  course  of  things.  It  is  not  often  that  the  same 
syndicate  man  indulges  twice  in  revolt.  Every  now  and 


26  MARRIAGE    AND    RACE    DEATH 

then  Myers  makes  an  exhibition  of  his  ability  to  'settle' 
troubles  that  he  himself  has  stirred  up  for  the  express 
purpose  of  impressing  his  value  on  the  gang. 

"As  to  the  girl  inmates  of  the  syndicate's  dens — the 
younger  they  are  and  the  less  English  they  can  speak 
the  better."  The  ships  carrying  immigrants  "are 
watched  carefully  both  here  and  in  New  York  for 
victims.  Sometimes  a  girl  lasts  as  long  as  four  years, 
but  not  often.  The  end  of  the  third  year  usually  finds 
the  white  slave  in  the  Almshouse^  where  she  is  sent  as  a 
part  of  the  scheme  under  which  the  syndicate  does  'busi- 
ness with  the  police. 

"When  settling  up  time  comes  the  girl  counts  up  her 
checks  and  turns  them  over  to  her  fellow,  who  settles 
with  the  house.  These  fellows,  they  call  them  cadets  in 
New  York,  own  anywhere  from  two  to  ten  girls  each. 
Out  of  what  the  girl  has  earned  as  shown  by  her  checks, 
the  house  takes  for  her  board  first.  This  may  be  $6,  or 
as  much  as  $10  for  the  week.  Then  they  tax  her  for  her 
house  clothes.  They  don't  let  these  girls  have  any  street 
clothes  until  they  are  well  broken  in  and  have  forgotten 
all  about  home  and  that  sort  of  thing.  She  has  to  pay 
a  dollar  a  week  for  the  house  doctor  and  something  for 
washing,  drugs  and  perfumery,  and  all  sorts  of  stuff 
forced  on  her  by  the  peddlers  who  have  the  privilege. 
Whatever  is  left  goes  to  her  fellow  and  the  girl  gets 
nothing.  These  fellows  are  all  lined  up  at  election  time 
to  take  chances  as  repeaters,  and  election  officers  and  the 
politicians  look  to  Myers  to  see  that  all  of  them  are  on 
hand  when  wanted"* 


*This  confession  was  made  to   the  Philadelphia   Law   and  Order 
Society  in  the  winter  of  1904-5. 


THE     BROTHEL     TRUST  27 

Further  insight  into  the  plight  of  these  girls  and  into 
the  brutality  of  their  captors  is  had  from  a  raid  made 
during  this  agitation  (the  night  of  January  24,  '05 ) 
upon  the  lowest  order  of  disreputable  houses,  and  re- 
ported in  the  papers  the  next  day.  Most  of  the  girls 
taken  were  without  either  funds  or  proper  street 
apparel.  Their  street  clothing,  if  they  had  any,  was 
thin  and  flimsy;  many  had  nothing  but  their  tawdry 
house  gowns,  and  in  these,  shivering  in  the  cold  wind 
and  the  snow  that  eddied  about  them,  they  were  forcibly 
conveyed  to  the  City  Hall  by  the  warmly  clad  constables. 
One  girl  "cried  as  though  she  were  beaten  when  she  left 
the  house  in  which  she  was  arrested.  The  patrol  wagon 
in  which  she  was  taken  to  City  Hall  was  half  a  square 
away,  and  to  this  she  ran  as  fast  as  she  could.  She, 
like  many  others,  had  no  covering  for  her  feet  except 
cheap,  thin  slippers,  and  these  were  quickly  filled  with 
snow." 

Those  who  conducted  the  arrests  were  the  agents  of 
the  Philadelphia  Law  and  Order  Society,  assisted  by 
constables  mostly  imported  from  adjoining  counties,  be- 
cause Philadelphia  constables  could  not  be  trusted.  All 
the  more  because  meaning  well  their  brutal  mode  of 
arrest  throws  into  bitter  relief  the  different  treatment 
of  the  upper  and  lower  classes.  If  a  gambling  hell 
frequented  by  rich  dames  had  been  raided  and  the  women 
discovered  in  their  d6collet6  gauze  gowns  and  light  slip- 
pers, would  they  have  been  hustled  out  into  a  fierce 
January  night  wind  and  drifting  snow  as  these  daughters 
of  the  masses  were?  If  their  wraps  had  been  taken  the 
law  and  order  men  would  have  ransacked  the  town  to 
provide  others.  But  the  poor  brothel  inmates  were 


28  MARRIAGE    AND    RACE    DEATH 

pulled  through  the  bleak  winter  night  almost  unclad 
because  they  were  poor  and  because  they  were  pros- 
titutes. 

The  system  depicted  leaves  but  little  sacredness  to 
the  family  or  to  any  present  union  of  the  sexes.  Society's 
permission  to  girl  hunters  to  trap  the  innocent  and 
ignorant  out  of  their  families  to  their  destruction,  is  a 
gauge  of  society's  inner  esteem  for  the  family  principle. 
Society  consents  to  a  system  which  destroys  its  sons,  and 
by  ensuring  their  contamination  with  venereal  diseases 
introduces  death  and  ruin  in  the  homes  which  they  will 
attempt  to  create.  The  incredible  extent  of  this  ruin  will 
be  treated  in  another  place,  where  the  consequences  of 
the  venereal  horrors  imparted  to  innocent  wives  will  be 
shown.  At  present  we  are  to  see  that  family  sanctity 
is  a  matter  of  outwaYd  solemnity  and  inward  joke,  that 
only  the  social  wealth  structure  is  sacred,  and  that  the 
final  authors  of  all  this  villainy  and  holy  mockery  are 
the  controllers  of  the  icealth  structure,  the  depraved 
owners  of  that  great  wealth-creating  machine  known  as 
the  American  People.  A  few  words  will  explain  how 
this  is. 

HOW  THE  RICH  BREED  AND  GUARD  SEXUAL  VICE. 

When  the  above  facts  became  generally  known  in 
Philadelphia  in  the  winter  of  1905  the  clergymen  of  the 
city  were  deeply  scandalized,  they  met  in  mass  meetings, 
expostulated,  bewailed,  and  prayed;  they  issued  their 
verbal  thunders  against  the  Director  of  Public  Safety, 
ruler  of  the  Police  Department,  and  against  the  Mayor, 
whose  dependant  the  Director  was;  but  they  did  not 


RICH     BREEDERS     OF     SEXUAL     VICE  29 

break  ground  to  go  to  the  root  of  the  situation.  What 
is  this? 

Philadelphia's  Mayor  (since  revolted)  was  at  that 
time  a  marionette  whose  strings  were  pulled  by  a  higher 
force,  the  State  Political  Boss.  This  subterranean  mas- 
ter was  Durham,  neither  elected  by  nor  responsible  to 
the  people,  the  function  of  boss  being  dissonant  to  our 
system  of  self-government ;  but  his  sway  was  absolute, 
he  ruled  Pennsylvania  like  a  military  dictator,  and  influ- 
enced national  laws  through  Pennsylvania's  puppet  rep- 
resentatives, sold  senators,  and  its  presidential  vote 
which  he  manufactured,  collected  and  delivered.  Inci- 
dentally he  held  a  state  sinecure  in  Harrisburg — which 
he  seldom  visited — netting  some  $15,000  a  year  as  Com- 
missioner of  Insurance  without  labor.  Through  con- 
tracts in  which  he  participated  Philadelphia  was  robbed 
of  many  million  dollars.  Here  was  the  visible  head 
of  the  Quaker  City  Vice  Trust. 

How  did  he  hold  his  power?  This  is  the  secret  of 
Pennsylvania's  prolonged  and  astounding  degradation. 
He  provided  legislation  for  the  respectable  rich  men  who 
ordered  and  paid  for  it.  He  did  the  same  work  as  bar- 
tender Murphy,  the  direputable  Boss  of  New  York.  The 
poor  do  not  pay  for  legislation,  it  is  the  rich,  and  the 
product  supplied  is  rich  men's  laws — laws  they  demand 
to  make  them  richer.  They  are  laws  deadly  to  the  peo- 
ple, for  otherwise  they  would  not  have  to  be  paid  for, 
since  all  would  desire  their  passage.* 


*To  make  our  statement  strictly  true,  the  "boss"  method  of 
debauching  labor  must  be  mentioned.  Excepting  the  Socialist  party, 
American  Labor  is  in  politics  incredibly  servile  and  guillible.  The  party 
bosses  pass  insignificant  labor  lawi  which  are  thrown  to  Labor  as  sops 


30  MARRIAGE    AND    RACE    DEATH 

The  heavy  buyers  of  these  laws  are  the  corporations. 
They  once  negotiated  with  individual  legislators,  sena- 
tors, mayors,  etc.,  but  found  it  circuitous  and  costly, 
and  the  party  boss  evolved  to  conduct  the  collective  bar- 
gaining and  deliver  the  goods.  The  lawmakers  are 
docile  cattle  in  the  play  because  their  boodle  is  large 
and  sure.  Many  of  them  are  elected  through  aid  of 
money  supplied  by  the  state  boss,  so  that  they  are  self- 
sold  to  him  in  advance.  To  resist  this  fellow^,  their 
owner,  by  not  voting  for  his  rich  men's  legislation, 
shuts  them  out  of  all  legislative  favors  for  their  district ; 
they  appear  as  helpless  nullities  and  simpletons 
before  their  constituents ;  and  at  the  next  poll  are  shelved 
in  disgrace,  and  superseded  by  tools  plastic  and  spongy 
to  the  Chief. 

It  would  have  called  for  courage  in  the  clergy  to  seri- 
ously and  intelligently  assail  this  dread  potentate  Dur- 
ham, for  they  would  have  had  to  unmask  the  real  powers 
behind  him,  the  great  respectable  corporation  thieves  of 
Pennsylvania.  Durham,  with  his  ^Republican  machine, 
was  simply  the  clerk  and  executive  of  these/trig  thieves, 
who  were  root  and  cause  of  the  vice.  Consequently  the 
pulpiteers  fired  their  vocabularies  at  the  then  puppet 

and  buy  their  support  of  the  party.  The  same  bosses,  however,  pass 
many  significant  laws,  purchased  by  capitalists,  which  are  extremely 
injurious  to  this  same  Labor,  which  the  sop  received  and  accepted  hin- 
ders Labor  from  seeing.  Labor  could  get  great  laws  for  itself  by 
repudiating  the  capitalist  politicians  and  coalescing  in  a  Socialist  move- 
ment to  exterminate  both  capitalist  and  political  bosses,  but  as  yet  it 
is  satisfied  with  penny  sop-laws.  In  Philadelphia  the  Boss  debauchery 
of  Labor  has  gone  so  far  that  organized  labor  there  recently  voted 
to  sustain  Durham  and  his  machine  against  Weaver  and  decent  citizens 
who  were  fighting  to  smash  that  boss,  because  Durham  had  thrown  Labor 
a  few  picayune  sop-laws.  Socialism  is  doing  the  great  work  of  educat- 
ing Labor  out  of  its  adolescence  and  giving  it  eyes  to  see  through  the 
most  transparent  and  humiliating  tricks. 


RICH    BREEDERS    OF    SEXUAL    VICE  31 

Mayor,  Weaver,  with  some  shots  at  the  Machine,  and 
though  very  noisy  their  bombardment  was  a  farce. 

One  of  them  said  of  this  Eepublican  machine :  "Back 
of  the  Mayor  is  the  organization  *  *  *.  The  organi- 
zation has  practically  disfranchised  the  reputable  citi- 
zens of  Philadelphia.  It  has  robbed  them.  It  has  poi- 
soned them.  It  has  turned  the  city  into  a  Sodom  *  *  *. 
A  black  flag  should  wave  over  the  City  Hall  and  the  arms 
of,  the  buccaneers  should  be  emblazoned  on  its  portals. 
The  Organization  has  brought  death  to  thousands  of 
citizens  during  the  last  thirty  years.  It  is  largely,  if  not 
wholly,  responsible  for  the  typhoid  epidemics  which 
have  proved  fatal  to  so  many.  They  could  have  long  ago 
been  abated  by  furnishing  the  city  with  pure  water." 
Not  a  syllable  here  about  the  real  pirates  and  buc- 
caneers, the  corporation  thieves,  on  whose  shops  and 
offices  the  black  flag  should  wave.  The  Sodom  organiza- 
tion he  lashed  was  part  of  the  Quay  machine  which  long 
had  throttled  and  poisoned  all  Pennsylvania  for  the  Ee- 
publican party.  President  Koosevelt  was  proud  to  call 
this  infamous  Quay  his  friend. 

Now  only  tyros  and  clergymen  are  unfamiliar  with 
its  reptile  methods.  The  manufacturing  magnates  want 
protective  laws  from  Congress  and  State  laws  enabling 
them  to  rob  the  country.  They  will  pay  big  money. 
For  money  received  from  these  robber  magnates  the 
Quay  machine  carries  the  State  Eepublican,  and  the  Ee- 
publican party  gives  the  promised  laws  to  the  robbers. 
Every  city  has  to  be  properly  machined  to  do  the  work 
of  piling  up  votes.  Durham  owned  the  Philadelphia 
machine.  On  the  side,  these  organizations  evolve 
rich  private  speculations,  such  as  the  Girl  Slave  Traffic 


32  MARRIAGE    AND    RACE    DEATH 

and  Brothel  Industry,  and  they  are  protected  and  abet- 
ted in  it  by  the  capitalist  magnates  who  cannot  sanction 
hurt  to  the  machines  lest  they  should  forfeit  their  elec- 
tion majorities  and  graft  laws.  The  magnates  compel 
their  factory,  store,  bank  and  railroad  employes  to 
vote  for  the  party  and  machine,  with  the  whip  of  dis- 
charge or  less  pay,  forcing  their  dependants  to  entrench 
the  machine  and  uphold  all  its  crimes.  All  bread-earn- 
ing citizens  through  being  first  slaves  to  the  Capitalist 
Thief  are  made  slaves  to  his  secretary,  the  Political  Boss. 

"Who  is  responsible  for  the  organization?"  asked  a 
preacher.  "The  citizens  of  Philadelphia.  It  is  their 
remissness  that  has  permitted  it  to  reach  its  present 
mammoth  proportions."  In  the  sense  that  the  citizens 
are  culpable  for  shrinking  from  a  revolution  to  throw 
off  the  capitalists  this  is  true.  But  while  the  great  law- 
buying  thief  survives,  he  is  responsible.  For  he  stands 
over  bread-earners  with  the  black-jack  and  strikes  if 
they  disobey  his  orders;  he  pours  gold  out  to  the  bosses 
to  bribe  the  voters  whom  his  low  wages  have  already 
impoverished  and  corrupted.  So  these  corporation  mag- 
nates are  the  true  parents  and  guardians  of  brothel 
vice  and  destroyers  of  the  sacred  family. 

The  moral  is,  to  crush  the  infamous  political  ma- 
chines, clear  away  the  economic  structure  that  hatches 
them.  Our  socia1  system  is  a  thief-incubator.  If  citi- 
zens let  it  live  they  will  break  one  political  machine 
only  to  see  another  grow  in  its  place.  Eich  men  will 
be  still  on  deck  to  bribe  new  machines  for  laws  and 
debauch  society.  The  Philadelphia  organization  went 
too  far  and  was  broken,  but  rich  thieves  never  sleep, 
and  there  will  be  another.  It  is  already  forming. 


CLERGY    AND    HOME  33 

CLERICAL    FIREWORKS    FOR    THE    HOME. 

But  now  note  the  eminent  impotence  of  the  clergy. 
Against  the  rich  respectable  scamps  who  fondle  the 
Boss  and  his  gang  by  buying  his  legislation  they  say 
nothing,  for  these  grafters  are  the  first  citizens.  On  these 
rich  malefactors,  who  should  be  sawing  wood  in  States' 
prisons,  rely  the  clergymen  for  their  bread  and  honey, 
traveling  tips,  and  ornate  Heaven-house  clubs  to  preach 
in.  Should  they  turn  the  swivel  of  scorn  on  the  true 
fathers  of  the  Girl  Trust,  they  would  have  to  train  their 
guns  forthright  into  their  own  velvet  pews  where  the 
pious  and  opulent  boodlers  sit  thinking  of  God.  Would 
the  great  corporation  thieves  on  whose  money  the  Heaven 
Clubs  batten  bear  such  cannonades?  No,  the  preachers 
would  be  turned  out  like  tramps  to  look  for  new  hire, 
which  they  would  not  find.  They  would  be  pulpit- 
blacklisted.  In  Philadelphia  the  clerical  clubmen  dain- 
tily avoided  poverty  and  mortification  by  attacking 
agents  instead  of  principals,,  and  lazily  appealing  to  God 
to  get  busy,  instead  of  taking  hold  themselves  like  men 
to  depose  the  swindling  rich.  They  were  only  theatri- 
cally hostile  to  the  trapping  of  young  girls  by  the  politi- 
cal footmen  of  their  masters:  the  religion-reeking  rich 
were  silent  partners  in  the  business,  sharing  its  profits, 
by  pledging  the  boss  immunity  to  manage  his  brothel 
system  in  his  own  way  to  stack  votes  for  their  needed 
laws. 

The  carrion  character  of  these  magnates  further 
speaks  in  the  fact  that  the  dens  of  debauch  which  they 
found  and  nurse  lure  their  own  sons  to  physical  destruc- 
tion. The  University  of  Pennsylvania  gives  its  steady 


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quota  of  victims,  and  Boston  physicians  know  how  start- 
lingly  many  Harvard  students  in  the  course  of  their 
culture  contract  a  deadly  venereal  infection.  The  girls 
are  planted  by  the  syndicate  in  cigar  stores,  which  look 
harmless  outside;  innocent  boys  enter  to  purchase 
cigars;  the  girls  make  lewd  remarks  to  inflame  the  pas- 
sions and  then  invite  the  youths  into  a  rear  room,  from 
which  they  emerge  trained  for  brothels  and  the  rotting 
venereal  curses.  These  dens  are  veritable  tarantula 
holes  which  the  rich  fathers  keep  for  their  boys  through 
sustaining  the  city  bosses.  The  boodle  lords  have  to 
elect  between  their  graft  laws  and  their  sons:  they 
choose  the  laws  and  send  their  sons  to  damnation.  Their 
theory  is  that  sons  and  daughters  are  better  rotten  than 
poor.  If  they  think  this  of  their  own  young,  how  will 
mere  society  and  human  race  affect  them?  They  will  be 
brutishly  callous  regarding  both. 

The  common  people  are  not  blameless.  They  could 
wipe  out  the  moneyed  thieves  who  brand,  enslave,  mu- 
tilate and  sweat  them.  They  are  as  torpid  as  frozen 
snakes.  But  it  is  their  duty  to  thaw  and  feel  and  strike. 
They  are  base  to  crouch  under  the  whip  of  false  religion, 
false  morality  and  false  law.  It  is  a  crime  not  to  feel 
and  resent  the  blows  of  the  slave-owning  rich.  The 
people  should  extinguish  their  species.  These  rich  not 
only  knife  and  decapitate  the  family,  but  are  death  to 
the  highest  motive  and  form  of  sex-union.  If  you  per- 
mit the  institution  of  rich  to  persist  I  deny  that  you  care 
for  the  family  institution.  They  are  wrecking  it  while 
you  babble. 


OHAPTEK  V. 

FEMINIZATION   OP  INDUSTRY. 

Having  tried  the  credentials  of  average  marriage- 
champions  and  found  them  spurious,  we  are  free  to  take 
up  marriage  de  novo  and  study  it  as  if  no  lions  of  preju- 
dice roared  against  its  fair  discussion.  We  brush  aside 
the  middle  class  family-worshipers  who  rave  when  the 
family  is  spoken  against,  but  look  on  as  meekly  as 
kitchen  menials  while  the  rich  thieves  wreck  it.  They 
cry,  "Kescue  the  family,  repair  it,  deliver  us  from  divorce 
or  society  will  perish";  as  Archbishop  Farley  describes 
it,  "Our  national  life  is,  already  honeycombed  by  this 
insidious  evil  [divorce] .  In  fact,  the  walls  of  society  have 
already  begun  to  totter,  if  they  are  not  actually  falling 
under  its  attacks."  To  all  of  which  we  are  compelled 
to  reply,  Buncombe.  You  are  playing  a  comedy,  the 
family  is  merely  a  verbal  fetish  with  you.  Are  not  you 
all  either  coward  fawners  on  the  rich  who  are  knocking 
out  the  props  of  the  family,  or  hand  in  glove  with  them 
for  profit,  begging  their  brothel  and  graft-got  gold  to 
build  your  churches  or  to  nourish  bourbon  universities? 
In  fact,  the  family  knights  are  likewise  heated  apostles 
or  willing  pillars  of  the  industrial  system  which  is 
sending  the  family  to  perdition.  Pardon  me  if  I  reject 
the  judgment  of  such  minds. 

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36  MARRIAGE    AND    RACE    DEATH 

We  must  therefore  probe  the  family  without  fear, 
since  race  future  is  at  stake.  Without  children  man- 
kind ends,  with  poor  children  it  retrogrades,  and  if  the 
well  born  are  ill  reared,  good  birth  is  defeated,  and  again 
we  have  race  retrogression. 

Two  facts  disintegrating  marriage  are  our  mode  of 
industrial  life  and  a  new  intelligence.  The  industrial 
formation  not  only  destroys  marriage  but  denies  ideal 
union  of  the  sexes,  thus  violating  intelligence.  Intelli- 
gence therefore  opposes  the  industrial  regime  and  the 
marriage  system  as  it  is,  postulating  an  industrial  form 
wherein  the  sexes  may  unite  rationally  with  a  view  to 
personal  and  race  perfection.  Present  marriage  is 
doomed  if  the  industrial  scheme  stands  and  is  doomed 
if  it  falls,  for  in  the  latter  event  intelligence  will  replace 
it  with  a  higher  relation. 

The  collapse  of  marriage  under  private  wealth  is 
rapidly  demonstrating  itself.  Women  are  magnetized 
from  the  home  to  industries,  disrupting  the  home;  chil- 
dren are  mobilized  in  shop  and  store  for  self  and  family 
support;  the  child  finds  the  family  not  a  boon  but  a 
fiscal  burden,  for  it  has  to  help  support  parents  indus- 
trially superannuated  at  the  age  of  thirty-five.  Under 
this  abnormal  burden  it  is  economically  well  for  the 
child  to  sever  himself  early  from  parents  who  will  be 
virtual  paupers  before  middle  life,  resting  on  his  small 
shoulders.  Women  and  children  are  cheap  hands,  so 
that  the  function  of  the  male  is  not  so  much  to  work 
after  he  ceases  to  be  a  child  as  to  be  a  breeder  and  con- 
tribute a  nest  of  children  to  the  wheels  of  toil.  If  all 
workingmen  died  at  thirty-five  it  would  be  an  advantage 
to  capitalists;  their  support  after  that  falls  largely  on 


THE    FEMtNtZATtON    Oft    INDUSTRY  37 

others  and  comes  out  of  wealth  which  the  rich  might 
have.  If  they  could  be  taught  to  chloroform  themselves 
at  that  age  the  danger  of  revolution  would  quite  cease, 
they  would  not  be  competing  with  their  children  and 
taking  the  bread  out  of  their  mouths,  the  pall  of  their 
careworn  and  emaciated  faces  would  be  lifted  from  the 
streets,  and  our  wealthy  masters  could  add  all  the  cost 
of  their  keeping  to  their  private  riches.  If  this  propo- 
sition is  presented  to  the  working  classes  in  a  right 
light  they  can  hardly  fail  to  embrace  it  for  the  happi- 
ness of  their  superiors  for  whom  they  were  born. 

The  above  named  forces  detach  woman  and  child  ever 
more  from  family  and  home.  As  a  child  educator  the 
home  is  now  superfluous,  for  the  nursery  of  the  toil- 
cramped  child  is  the  factory  and  store  emporium.  The 
home  is  unnecessary  to  industrialism  and  must  go.  It 
is  repulsive  to  a  woman  of  average  mind  to  be  the  sup- 
porter of  a  man  shelved  in  his  prime  or  the  mother  of  a 
band  of  starveling  overworked  children,  on  whose  pre- 
maturely aged  forms  she  must  soon  lean  for  a  doleful 
keep.  Much  better  than  that  sorrow  is  rejection  of 
marriage. 

The  man  turned  out  to  grass  at  thirty-five  becomes  a 
drunkard.  Industrialism  gave  him  no  training  to  be 
decent  in  youth  and  when  before  middle  life  he  is  dis- 
charged from  work  to  loaf,  starve  and  rot  his  remaining 
interest  is  drink.  Industrialism  is  the  mother  of  drunk- 
enness. Temperance  workers  are  mistaken  people.  Their 
method  of  damming  up  drunkenness  is  to  stretch  a  rope 
of  straw  across  the  stream ;  Industrialism  creates  a  hun- 
dred drunkards  where  they  save  or  prevent  one.  Many 
temperance  workers  are  financially  interested  in  the 


38  MAKRIACi:     AM)     RACE    DEATH 

industrial  system  and  cannot  afford  to  assail  it.  Temper- 
ance work,  which  is  not  at  the  same  time  revolutionary,  is 
really  a  prop  to  drunkard-making  Industrialism  by  giv- 
ing wide  belief  to  the  lie  that  the  working  classes  are 
wretched  because  they  drink.  The  wretchedness  precedes 
and  then  they  drink  because  they  are  wretched.  Society 
shuts  them  out  out  of  all  high  pleasures,  leaving  only 
drink  and  sex.  Society  need  not  be  grateful  to  the 
Women's  Christian  Temperance  Union,  since  it  should 
be  preventing  drink  by  aiding  to  overthrow  Industrial- 
ism, and  is  not. 

But  professional  temperance  people  reply,  "Behold 
how  the  rich  drink,  which  is  proof  that  poverty  does  not 
cause  drink."  They  drink  from  excess  of  wealth,  which 
revolution  will  cut  off.  Drink  is  one  of  the  methods  of 
the  rich  fulfilling  their  vocation — burning  wealth.  But 
do  not  people  between  the  rich  and  poor  drink?  Yes, 
because  wTith  profligate  wealth-wasters  at  the  top  of 
society  and  a  sea  of  hell  at  the  bottom,  those  between 
wTill  be  corrupt,  mean  idealed,  and  great  will  be  their 
contribution  to  every  debauch.  Revolutionists,  however, 
are  delinquent  if  they  do  not  use  their  influence  directly 
against  intemperance  and  repress  it  among  themselves. 
In  Cincinnati,  I  believe  it  was,  the  brewery  drivers  gave 
up  a  shorter  workday  rather  than  sacrifice  free  beer. 
Radical  politics  should  not  affiliate  with  beer-dens  if  for 
no  other  reason,  for  this :  that  there  are  already  enough 
agencies  at  work  to  corrupt  all  kinds  of  politicians  with- 
out adding  drink.  Drinking  men  undermine  their  judg- 
ment and  are  untrustworthy  in  a  matter  of  such  tre- 
mendous moment  as  revolutionary  reconstruction.  Men 
given  to  drink  have  much  less  character  to  appeal  to 


THE    FEMINIZATION     OF     INDUSTRY  39 

with  revolutionary  ideas  than  temperate  men.  They 
may  be  moved  more  easily,  but  they  are  worth  much  less 
when  they  are  moved.  The  same  is  true  of  sexual  profli- 
gates. Yet  when  all  this  is  said  it  remains  that  mere 
temperance  workers,  i.  e.,  those  not  laboring  for  eco- 
nomic rectification,  are  rather  clogs  than  helps  to  the 
temperance  cause  itself. 

In  Muscatine,  la.,  William  Clark  died^of  delirium 
tremens  and  reporters  "visited  the  humble  home." 
"The  widow  and  ten  children  were  gathered  about  the 
kitchen  fire.  When  asked  for  particulars  the  widow 
took  pencil  and  paper  and  prepared  the  following  note 
for  the  press :"  "Please  do  not  say  that  the  family  deeply 
mourn  for  their  dead.  For  years  he  has  been  husband 
and  father  only  in  name.  For  affection  given,  only 
blows  and  curses  have  been  received  in  return.  It  is 
better  for  him  that  he  is  dead  and  better  for  us.  Now 
that  the  long  dark  chapter  is  ended,  do  not  make  us 
hypocrites  by  publishing  that  which  is  not  true."*  The 
woman  was,  of  course,  a  criminal  for  having  one  child 
by  that  sot.  But  this  is  the  family  condition  which 
Industrialism  makes  flourish.  Hundreds  of  thousands  of 
wives  wish  their  drinking  husbands  dead;  if  they  did 
right  they  would  all  strike  against  the  industrial  family 
and  walk  out  of  their  accursed  homes  to  stay :  they  would 
decline  to  be  manufacturers  of  future  drunkards.  And 
many  of  them  are  so  deciding. 

The  expulsion  of  men  from  work  at  thirty-five  to 
make  space  for  cheap  girls,  boys  and  women  is  also 
driving  males  to  reprisal.  Why  should  men  father  chil- 
dren to  supersede  and  pauperize  them?  By  declining 

N.  Y,  World,  Nov.  2,  1905. 


40  MARRIAGE    AND    RACE    DEATH 

offspring  they  can  limit  the  child  and  women  supply  and 
keep  their  work,  and  they  are  doing  it :  they  are  throwing 
marriage  overboard.  Thus  Industrialism  snatches  the 
family  out  by  the  roots.  This  vastly  multiplies  prostitu- 
tion and  venereal  diseases,  drawing  regiments  of  women 
into  that  industry  who  would  otherwise  be  mothers. 
Prostitution  is  an  honest  bread-earning  trade  established 
by  Industrialism.  It  is  deadly  but  compulsory,  like  lead- 
working,  match  manufacturing,  etc.  The  physique  of 
the  American  race  is  rotted  by  venery  illnesses,  but  who 
cares?  The  only  ones  wrho  have  any  say  in  the  matter 
are  the  Bosses  of  Industry,  and  they  want  it  so.  If  you 
rot  the  fabric  of  the  people  they  make  better  slaves.  At 
thirty-five  Industrialism  turns  workingmen  out  to  rot 
to  death  with  Venery  and  Rum.  It  is  industrially  de- 
sired— essentially  preplanned  by  the  rich  parasites,  who 
see  it  happening  and  consciously  cause  it.  The  Standard 
Oil  Co.'s  teamsters  in  Chicago  begged  for  more  wages 
in  November,  1905,  declaring  they  could  not  live  on 
what  they  received.  The  Standard's  manager,  who 
said  he  sympathized  wath  them,  refused  on  the  ground 
that  there  were  other  men  who  would  work  at  the 
present  rate — the  rate  at  which  men  cannot  live.  Yet, 
to  parasite  Rockefeller  and  its  other  owners,  the  Stand- 
ard pays  annual  dividends  of  45  per  cent.  This 
is  consciously,  with  premeditation  and  hate,  assigning 
the  working  class  to  character  rot  and  physical  death. 
Gonorrhea  and  Gin  are  good  substitutes  for  'Chloroform 
as  superannuated  workingmen-killers. 

Men  thus  clubbed  into  degradation  by  the  rich  will 
desert  their  wrves  and  children  in  numbers.  But  New 
York  State  is  rounding  up  this  class  for  the  capitalists 


THE     FEMINIZATION     OF     INDUSTRY  41 

by  a  Fugitive  Slave  Law  making  desertion  a  felony. 
Julius  Fried  is  the  first  slave  returned  to  his  masters 
under  this  law.  He  is  a  young  tailor,  and  the  detective 
traced  him  clear  to  Cleveland,  where  he  found  him  lux- 
uriously working  in  a  sweatshop,  and  dragged  him  back 
to  a  Ne\v  York  sweatshop  or  jail.  The  following  iri 
descent  indictment  has  been  fastened  upon  him  by  a  N.  Y. 
judge:  "Then  and  there  [October,  1905]  the  parent 
and  person  charged  with  the  care  and  custody,  for  nur- 
ture and  education,  of  one  Lillie  Fried  did  feloniously 
abandon  and  desert  the  said  child  in  destitute  circum- 
stances, and  did  feloniously  and  willfully  omit  to  furnish 
the  necessary  and  proper  food,  clothing  and  shelter  for 
the  said  child." 

The  capitalists  who  rob  these  workingmen  of  the 
essentials  to  live  on  cannot  permit  themselves  to  sup- 
port deserted  children,  yet  the  children  must  be  "nur- 
tured" to  a  proper  age  for  entering  as  slaves  into  the 
capitalists'  mills:  ergo,  deserting  fathers  are  felonized 
by  the  capitalists'  laws.  Perhaps  it  is  fancied  that  this 
will  stimulate  workingmen  to  marry  and  increase  the 
population. 

Another  result  from  reigning  forces  is  the  Feminiza- 
tion  of  Industry.  This  also  the  Capitalist  Bosses  want. 
For  it  is  inexpensive  and  simple  to  keep  women  slaves 
and  if  you  can  fill  industry  with  weak  women  and  kill 
out  the  men  there  will  be  no  rebellions  and  French 
Eevolutions.  Now  this  is  being  done  on  a  stupendous 
scale  and  with  fairly  staggering  speed.  Man  in  industry 
will  be  an  almost  extinct  species  before  long.  A  few 
will  be  saved  for  breeders  and  to  do  the  heavy  work 
not  yet  conquered  by  machines,  while  more  will  be 


42  MARRIAGE    AND    RACE    DEATH 

sucked  into  the  army  and  police  systems  to  club  and 
shoot  the  females  and  children  if  they  revolt  against 
their  slavery.  Nothing  so  debauches  and  brutalizes 
character  as  military  and  police  service,  so  that  these 
groups  will  evolve  into  devoted  lackeys  of  the  billion- 
aires. As  industrial  men  die  out  the  killing  class  will 
be  the  breeders  of  future  working  children  and  women. 
The  breeding  will  have  to  be  done  mainly  without  the 
encumbrance  of  marriage  and  home,  by  an  improved 
form  of  prostitution,  leaving  the  military  set  free  from 
affection  for  their  purely  animally  engendered  offspring, 
so  that  they  will  shoot  them  without  ruth  if  they  ever 
rise  against  the  capitalist  kings. 

Industrial  women  care  little  for  children  and  have 
a  good  right  not  to.  In  half  a  generation  all  working 
class  women  except  prostitutes  will  be  tightly  niched 
into  industry  and  will  substantially  abandon  babe-bear- 
ing. Most  of  them  will  be  living  freely  with  men  and 
preventing  children  by  artificial  means  (not  abortion), 
a  system  of  life  already  immensely  prevalent  in  indus- 
trial circles  and  enforced  by  Industrialism.  The  work- 
ing classes  will  be  prostitutionized.  They  will  be  chil- 
dren of  men  and  women  who  do  not  want  them  and  can- 
not love  them,  but  who  will  have  them  for  pay.  Chil- 
dren will  have  to  be  paid  for  at  so  much  a  head — that 
is  to  say,  the  working  class  supply.  The  mothers  will 
be  paid;  the  fathers,  the  military  and  police  class,  will 
charge  nothing  and  will  have  nothing  to  do  with  the 
child  supply  after  its  birth.  As  women  take  up  the 
dangerous  prostitute  trade  now  without  qualms  to  earn 
bread,  there  will  be  no  lack  of  them  who  will  offer 
themselves  for  hired  mothers. 


THE  FEMINIZATION  OF  INDUSTRY  43 

The  Capitalist  Bosses  will  find  a  morally  unobjec- 
tional  way  to  bring  up  the  children  and  will  secure 
credit  below  and  above  by  it.  The  whole  process  will 
"evolve"  as  the  product  of  natural  laws  for  which  no 
man  is  culpable,  and  the  religious  will  grieve  and  form 
new  charity  brigades  to  bring  the  pitiable  infants  up  in 
the  fear  of  capitalists  and  the  Lord.  The  leaders  of 
these  brigades  will  receive  a  salary.  The  capitalists 
who  silently  manage  the  process  will  barely  provide  the 
funds  needed  to  rear  the  girls  born  into  brain-starved 
industrial  slaves  and  prostitutes  of  the  two  grades,  and 
the  boys  into  soldiers.  As  only  a  fraction  of  the  latter 
will  be  needed  to  overawe  the  female  hordes  of  toil, 
the  majority  will  be  permitted  to  die  early  of  syphilis 
and  booze. 

The  fathers  of  many  of  these  children  will  be  the 
capitalist  bosses  themselves.  The  working  class  will 
then  be  a  composite  product  of  the  capitalist  brute,  the 
military  brute  and  the  prostitute.  Heretofore  the  work- 
ing class  has  furnished  much  inventive  and  productive 
brain,  men  it  is  true  who  have  deserted  their  clan  and 
sat  as  near  the  feet  of  the  capitalist  as  they  were  per- 
mitted. Nevertheless,  many  of  them  did  able  work  as 
inventors,  engineers  and  thinkers.  Occasionally  one  of 
them  secured  an  education  at  a  gentlemen's  university, 
became  a  scholar  and  was  looked  upon  as  a  kind  of 
freak.  When  the  whole  working  class  is  the  progeny  of 
prostitutes  and  brutes,  this  supply  of  brains  will  be 
sharply  cut  off.  The  general  community  will  be  enor- 
mously impoverished  of  intelligence  although  the  charac- 
ter level  will  not  be  much  lowered.  A  result  of  this  loss 
of  brains  will  be  complete  erasure  of  all  fear  of  revolu- 


44  MARttlAGfi    AND    fcACE 

tion  and  reconstruction.  The  working  masses  will  all 
be  unalleviated  toadies,  glorying  in  a  condition  which, 
though  it  now  is  a  fact,  some  of  them  are  ashamed  of. 
The  American  people  will  be  absolutely  brutalized  at 
both  ends — above  and  below.  As  to  the  remnant  be- 
twren,  called  the  middle  class,  as  the  capitalist  becomes 
ever  richer  and  kinglier,  it  will  grow  rapidly  meaner 
and  get  its  disreputable  joy  by  dancing  jumping-jack 
devotion  to  the  rich.  Its  daughters  will  acknowledge 
the  honor  of  prostitution  where  capitalists  are  concerned 
and  many  will  offer  themselves  to  the  service.  To-day 
a  large  contingent  of  the  elegant  and  more  private  ladies 
of  pleasure  of  the  rich  are  middle  classmen's  daughters ; 
they  have  had  culture  opportunities. 

The  conditions  here  described  are  already  half  way 
operative;  they  will  be  universal  if  a  revolution  does 
not  crush  Industrialism. 

One  phase — curtailment  of  population — has  been 
very  marked.  Seas  of  immigrants  have  flooded  in  to 
supply  the  exhaustion  of  the  native  element.  This  has 
been  a  tower  of  help  to  Industrialism.  Foreigners  are 
cheap  and  easy  to  kill.  Ignorant  of  the  language  and 
ways,  they  work  like  beasts  and  die  like  flies.  Their 
industrial  murder  attracts  no  notice.  But  after  a  while 
they  learn  the  depopulation  trick  as  well  as  the  natives, 
and  their  families  slump.  Nothing  is  easier  than  to 
figure  how  much  each  child  diminishes  parental  com- 
fort. The  grewsome  law  that  children  drive  their 
fathers  out  of  employment  is  just  as  true  of  immigrants 
as  of  aborigines,  so  that  child  stoppage  and  general 
prostitution  will  also  among  them  supplant  the  family. 

The  extinction  of  the  man  is  assured,  whether  he  be 


THE     FEMINIZATION     OF     INDUSTRY  45 

foreign  or  native.  The  Boston  surface,  elevated  and  sub- 
way system  has  been  substituting  women  for  men  as 
ticket  sellers,  of  course  at  reduced  wages.  When  asked 
why  they  did  not  give  the  women  men's  pay  for  the 
same  work  they  replied,  "Why,  that  would  be  impossible ; 
we  should  be  swamped  with  applicants ;  we  already  have 
3,000  women  on  our  lists,  waiting  to  be  taken  on  at  the 
pay  we  give."  The  end  of  the  working  man  is  in  sight; 
women  can  collect  fares  and  run  the  trolley  motors; 
what  can  they  not  do  with  a  little  adaptation  of  female 
dress? 

Checking  immigration  would  probably  hasten  this 
extinction  of  males.  The  foreign  man  works  for  small 
pay  and  the  capitalist  therefore  consents  to  use  him 
in  place  of  the  American  woman;  this  brings  down  the 
wage  of  all  men  and  the  American  man  gets  his  chance 
with  the  rest:  but  if  the  foreigners  were  excluded  and 
the  men  sought  by  unions  to  resist  wage-shrinkage, 
women  would  be  taken  on  everywhere.  The  men  would 
have  to  live  on  their  wives,  their  daughters,  their  mis- 
tresses, or  starve. 

This  condition  exposes  the  inferior  character  of 
American  trade  union  leaders.  The  problem  is  how  to 
save  industry  from  being  womanized,  and  how  to  deliver 
workingmen  from  their  industrial  hell;  but  this  is  not 
the  problem  of  the  labor  leaders.  As  shown  by  their 
deeds  their  problem  is  to  keep  the  labor  war  waging,  that 
they  may  continue  to  be  its  generals.  Mr.  Samuel 
Gompers  and  Mr.  John  Mitchell  are  obvious  examples. 
The  former  fights  immigration  but  he  does  not  fight 
capitalism;  he  is  one  of  its  chief  pillars  by  warning  his 
blind  followers  back  from  revolutionary  politics.  The 


46  MARRIAGE    AND    RACE    DEATH 

capitalists  could  well  afford  to  salary  him  at  $500,000 
a  year  for  doing  this.  Mitchell  puts  the  wretched 
miners  through  the  horrors  and  starvation  of  periodic 
strikes  which  always  leave  them  almost  where  they  were 
before.  He  bleeds  them  of  money  and  bleeds  the  work- 
ing men  of  the  country — and  to  what  real  end?  The 
end  that  Mitchell  may  continue  to  be  the  president  of 
a  great  union  which  does  not  even  profess  the  purpose 
of  giving  the  wage-slave  freedom.  As  soon  as  the  union 
threatens  to  lapse  he  comes  into  the  foreground  with 
another  strike  to  starve  the  miners  and  upset  the  nation, 
that  Mitchell  may  not  lose  his  position.  The  fact  that 
the  strikes  have  continually  to  be  repeated  is  a  confes- 
sion that  this  is  virtually  all  they  come  to.  There  is 
another  way,  revolutionary  politics,  by  which  the 
workers  could  be  lifted  immediately  out  of  their 
wretchedness,  and  the  labor  leaders  oppose  it .  The 
American  labor  movement  will  have  to  depose  these 
inferior  men  before  it  can  deal  with  the  great  social 
questions.  Its  present  heads  are  Secondary  Capitalists. 
The  highest  function  of  the  Labor  Union  is  to  organ- 
ize the  working  class  in  trades  for  a  universal  strike,  to 
work  with  the  laboring  class  in  revolutionary  politics 
for  bringing  our  economic  system  to  a  crisis  and  taking 
over  production  from  capitalists  to  the  people.  But 
with  present  labor  leaders,  largely  either  self-seekers  or 
grafters,  this  is  quite  impossible.  They  look  to  graduate 
into  some  political  berth.  Or,  as  Mr.  Henry  White  is 
charged  with  doing  while  Secretary  of  the  National 
Garment  Workers,  they  line  their  pockets  from  the  con- 
tracts they  make  for  the  unions  as  their  officers.  Mr. 
White  was  drawing  $30  a  week  from  the  poor  garment 


THE  FEMINIZATION  OF  INDUSTRY         47 

workers,  yet  they  allege  that  he  speculated  out  of  their 
contracts,  though  sworn  not  to.  He,  like  Gompers  and 
Mitchell,  is  a  member  of  the  Civic  Federation.  Such 
men  do  immeasurably  more  damage  to  the  true  interests 
of  labor  than  the  late  Sam  Parks. 

Six  million  dollars  are  now  wanted  from  the  working 
people  of  the  country  as  a  fund  for  a  new  coal  strike. 
It  would  be  better  for  the  workers  to  raise  this  sum 
and  present  it  to  Mitchell  and  his  strike  captains  as  a 
gift  not  to  strike,  than  to  go  through  the  old  strike  farce 
to  keep  them  in  office.  The  single  justification  of  another 
coal  strike  is  to  effect  the  expropriation  of  the  coal  mines 
by  the  United  States.  Then  alone  will  the  miners  and 
the  public  have  their  rights.  The  miners  should  depose 
Mitchell  and  his  futile  clique  and  strike  with  the  reso- 
lution not  to  mine  an  atom  of  coal  until  the  nation 
takes  over  the  mines.  All  American  citizens  should 
support  them  to  the  end.  It  would  be  the  first  gun  in 
the  conquest  of  the  pirates  to  whom  83,000,000  people 
now  subserviently  crawl. 

The  labor  world  womanized  will  not  be  a  high  world. 
Wage-women  will  be  a  degraded  and  perverted  product, 
the  debased  minions  of  a  limited  corporation  of  capital- 
ist male  brutes.  Overwork,  confinement  and  meagre  food 
will  deter  them  from  developing  physical  strength  to 
conquer  their  masters,  supposing  them  mentally  capa- 
ble; but  there  is  no  reason  to  think  they  will  have  the 
impulse.  Their  work-slave  fathers  and  brothers  have 
ample  physical  strength  and  numbers  to  overwhelm  their 
rich  owners  and  overseers,  but  they  choose  slavery, 
starvation,  suicide  by  syphilis  and  drink,  and  the  femini- 
zation  of  society.  There  is  no  ground  to  believe  the 


48  MARRIAGE    AND    RACE    DEATH 

daughters  of  these  lumpish  sufferers  will  have  a  spirit 
not  in  their  begetters. 

Mentally  they  will  greatly  shrink  below  the  present 
wage- woman.  The  spiritual  quality  of  their  male  con- 
nections will  be  totally  lost.  They  will  be  the  instru- 
ments of  pleasure  or  hired  propagation  of  the  two  im- 
bruted  dominant  male  types,  the  capitalist  and  military, 
and  of  course  will  be  despised  by  their  users.  Their 
state  will  be  fathoms  lower  than  that  of  an  Eastern 
harem  occupant,  and  their  natures  will  degrade  accord- 
ingly. Without  affection,  shorn  of  outlook  or  love,  what 
ideals  can  they  have,  what  things  to  strive  for,  what 
courage  to  strive?  The  feminization  of  industry  will 
not  only  extinguish  the  working  class  male  except  as 
social  policemen  and  breeders,  but  will  dwarf  up  and 
animalize  the  working  woman.  As  the  working  classes, 
including  our  peasant  farmers,  have  heretofore  supplied 
much  of  the  race  strength,  the  future  of  the  American 
race  can  be  calculated. 

Finally,  the  factory  and  department  store  slave- 
woman  becomes  physically  ever  less  able  to  mother 
decent  babes.  She  is  giving  her  child-energy  to  capitalist 
gourmands  who  are  virtually  eating  her  children.  But 
this  fits  perfectly  into  the  capitalist  scheme.  Stunted 
creatures  can  work  and  are  more  docile  than  decent 
children ;  they  are  born  with  no  virile  microbes  of  revo- 
lution and  salvation;  poor,  puny,  ansemic,  half-sized 
starvelings,  mentally  shriveled  also,  they  will  be  as  im- 
potent as  the  races  of  naked  savages  against  Christian 
machine  guns.  The  male  progeny  of  such  mothers  will 
be  born  already  emasculated  of  everything  manly,  and 


THE     FEMINIZATION     OF     INDUSTRY  49 

their  prenatally  debauched  systems  will  drive  them  into 
all  death-bringing  excesses. 

One  need  but  open  one's  eyes  to  see  that  this  devolu- 
tion is  even  now  far  accomplished.  The  devitalized 
working-class  type  is  here  in  monster  hordes  with  those 
servile,  expressionless  eyes,  not  foreigners  either.  They 
will  be  able  to  mother  and  father  only  good  slaves,  pros- 
titutes, alcoholics,  gonorrheics,  cravens,  and  dwarfs.  If 
the  social  forces  keep  their  course,  in  a  little  time  the 
whole  working  class  will  consist  of  such. 


CHAPTEE  VI. 

THE  SALVATION  PAUPER  ARMY. 

The  Salvation  Army  and  all  charities  perform  the 
dignified  work  of  easing  the  death  of  the  victims  of  the 
social  system  by  prolonging  it,  and  they  are  potent  aids 
in  race  deterioration.  Through  them  the  starved,  spirit- 
crushed  and  servilized  are  held  in  life  a  while  longer  to 
propagate  citizens.  They  are  the  kind  that  propagate 
because  they  have  no  other  pleasure. 

The  Salvation  Army  is  a  gross  imposition.  It  teaches 
the  capitalists'  superfluous  poor  to  exist  on  garbage 
eked  out  with  psalms  of  praise  for  the  privilege.  The 
empty  stomach  is  filled  and  silenced  by  a  prayer.  The 
rich  cheerfully  supply  the  scraps  to  pacify  the  deluded 
victims,  for  which  the  Army  pays  by  organizing  the 
gaunt  serfs  into  a  state  of  godly  quiet  wherein  they  sub- 
sist on  hosannas  and  soup.  The  Salvation  Army  crea- 
ture is  almost  the  lowest  formed,  for  whereas  other  lack- 
eys are  not  fed  by  charity  this  whole  institution  is  one 
of  beggars;  it  is  a  universal  beggarhood.  It  teaches  a 
bogus  religion,  instilling  that  holiness  lies  in  cravenly 
bearing  the  basest  lot.  The  Army  is  a  chest-protector 
of  the  rich,  a  chain  armor  concealed  under  the  silken 
vest  of  religion.  The  population  that  is  taught  by  it 
to  live  like  mangy  curs  homeless  on  the  street,  brows- 

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THE    SALVATION    PAUPER    ARMY  51 

ing  at  swill  pails  and  loving  their  Creator,  would  be 
highly  dangerous  explosives  to  the  rich  if  something  was 
not  done  for  them.  The  very  least,  the  absolutely  least, 
is  what  the  Salvation  Holiness  Machine  is  formed  to 
do.  The  Army  is  a  School  of  Pauperism.  A  good 
scientific  pauper  is  a  poor  Christian  trained  to  be  kicked 
all  day  by  rich  Christians  to  earn  a  hunk  of  bread  sent 
around  to  the  Salvationists  by  his  kickers.  Salvation- 
ists are  moral  eunuchs.  The  goal  of  all  their  work  is 
the  manufacture  of  Holy  Cravens.  The  Salvation  Pau- 
per Army  ( S.  P.  A. )  is  a  revival  of  the  mendicant  orders 
of  the  Catholic  Church  to  perpetuate  the  Eeign  of  the 
Rich.  It  pretends  to  alleviate  human  suffering,  yet  ter- 
ribly increases  it  by  bracing  up  the  cause. 

The  skill  of  its  formation  is  as  cunning  as  it  is  detest- 
able. It  organizes  the  slag  and  outcasts  of  the  wealth 
system  into  an  Army  of  Willing  Diers  by  playing  upon 
all  the  lower  instincts  of  the  ignorant,  their  vanity, 
superstition,  co\vardice,  their  itch  to  be  graded  one 
above  another  even  in  the  process  of  starving; 
to  some  of  the  wretches  it  gives  military  titles  to 
stimulate  their  heroism  in  the  preservation  of  Human 
Hunger;  and  the  work  of  these  abject  specimens  is 
to  drill  the  masses  to  die  devoutly  and  piously  as 
a  converted  criminal  does  when  he  is  hanged.  So- 
ciety puts  these  Salvation  pauper  masses  to  death,  it 
executes  them,  and  the  function  of  the  Salvation  Pauper 
Machine  is  to  teach  them  to  hang  peaceably  and  praise 
Jesus  for  it.  No  greater  perversion  was  ever  devised. 
It  is  a  Damnation  Army,  a  Death  Army.  All  that  so- 
called  sacrifice  of  the  privates  and  officers,  their  clean- 
ing the  dirty  rooms  of  the  extremely  poor,  their  nurs- 


52  MARRIAGE    AND    RACE    DEATH 

ing  the  sick  and  caring  for  workwomen's  babies  while 
the  mothers  go  to  work  (think  of  it,  that  such  mothers 
must  go  to  work ! )  their  sitting  all  day  on  frigid  streets 
with  their  beggary  apparatus  to  entice  a  couple  of 
chicken  meals  a  year  out  of  the  prosperous  for  the  Hun- 
ger Hosts,  protects  the  people  and  institutions  that 
manufacture  the  Hunger  Hosts.  It  quiets  the  social 
conscience  so  that  the  manufacture  goes  gloriously  on, 
and  the  suffering  is  perpetual  instead  of  being  intense 
for  a  moment  and  then  cured,  as  would  happen  if  the 
crimes  of  the  rich  were  allowed  to  do  their  full  work 
and  come  to  a  head  in  sight  of  men. 

The  Associated  Charitists  belong  economically  to  the 
same  group  as  the  Salvationizers.  In  both  a  large  army 
of  persons  are  getting  their  oicn  living  out  of  tinkering 
with  and  perpetuating  the  Hunger  Hell  of  the  masses. 
Both  sets  of  workers  are  mighty  Anak  lieutenants  of  the 
infamous  rich.  What  a  disgraceful  work  for  men  and 
women  to  be  in !  They  are  on  a  moral  par  with  brothel 
keepers.  Making  profit  out  of  the  hell  system  of  Human 
Hunger  instead  of  using  what  might  they  have  to  abolish 
it!  Or  at  least,  like  men,  standing  aside  and  letting 
all  the  horrors  of  that  system  break  out  visibly,  so  that 
all  men  should  see  what  is  proceeding  and  feel  the  awful 
lash  of  its  consequences. 

The  perpetuated  paupers  breed  and  pour  a  constant 
stream  of  degeneracy  into  the  race,  and  that  is  how  the 
Salvation  and  Charity  Quacks  affect  the  human  breed. 
They  are  the  hirelings  of  the  capitalists  to  defoul  and 
debase  the  human  race  unspeakably. 

Drafting  the  poor  from  cities  to  farms  (advised  by 
Eider  Haggard's  Government  Report  and  tried  by  the 


THE    SALVATION    PAUPER    ARMY  53 

Salvation  Army)  is  no  remedy,  for  on  the  farms  the 
poor  will  have  to  cope  with  the  conditions  which  are 
driving  farmers  in  bankrupt  regiments  to  the  cities. 
The  method  is  fantastical.  It  will  effect  the  formation 
of  the  following  kind  of  circle :  farmers  accustomed  to  a 
certain  grade  of  decent  living  will  fail,  they  will  flow 
to  cities  to  undergo  the  compression  of  wagery,  like  men 
shot  in  battle  one  by  one  of  them  or  their  sons  will 
drop  into  the  Starving  Fifth,  Salvationism  will  then 
"rescue"  and  carry  a  few  of  them  back  to  a  fraction 
of  the  farms  which  they  or  their  fathers  lost,  a  quarter 
as  able  to  cope  with  industrial  conditions  as  they  were 
before.  But  this  is  excellent  for  the  capitalists,  for  now 
they  will  w^ork  for  a  quarter  as  much,  live  on  a  quarter 
as  much,  and  be  only  a  quarter  as  brave  to  stand  for 
their  rights.  Most  of  them,  after  intense  struggle 
and  a  great  volume  of  hard  work,  the  proceeds  of  which 
the  rich  will  take,  w7ill  have  to  give  it  up  and  remount 
the  circle  bearing  them  back  to  the  cities  to  be  reduced 
in  size  and  wants  and  intelligence  again,  again  to  be 
Salvationized,  such  as  do  not  die  in  the  saving.  The 
poor  will  pay  the  taxes  for  each  transportation  of  these 
paupers  back  to  the  country  and  for  starting  them  in 
their  rural  helotage  to  the  rich. 

The  desired  effect  of  this  downward  oscillation  is  to 
stimulate  the  most  servile  propagation.  It  creates  a 
hotbed  for  the  multiplication  of  the  miserable,  casting 
up  into  babedom  a  terrible  scoria  of  human  degenerates, 
the  most  ideal  material  for  slave  industrials. 


CHAPTER  VII. 

VOLUNTARY  DYING  OF  POPULATION. 

Such  is  the  effect  on  the  lower  types — their  prodig- 
ious multiplication — saturating  the  race  with  the  unfit. 
The  effect  of  these  social  conditions  on  the  higher  types 
must  next  be  considered,  but  an  error  as  to  the  nature.* 
of  the  unfit  should  be  first  removed.  They  are  composed 
of  three  great  classes:  born  degenerates,  degenerates 
through  social  chance,  and  the  more  manly  whom  cor- 
rupt society  united  to  suppress.  The  unfit  army  are  not 
only  the  fallen  weak,  but  the  beaten  down  strong.  The 
survival  of  the  fittest  in  human  society  is  one  of  the 
greatest  lies  ever  recorded  in  human  belief.  Society 
unfits  the  fittest,  kills  them,  and  then  glories  in  their 
extinction  as  the  survival  of  the  fittest. 

While  social  stress  breaks  and  debauches  many  to  the 
point  of  reckless  propagation  as  described,  on  others  less 
broken  its  influence  is  the  annihilation  of  the  popula- 
tion instinct.  Inequitable  economic  hardship  wipes  out 
the  family  institution.  Where  nature  is  equally  severe 
on  all,  men  spiritedly  face  it;  but  if  harsh  burdens  are 
loaded  on  the  many  by  a  privileged  class,  the  many  if 
enlightened  resent  it,  cease  to  propagate,  and  the  society 
crumbles.  Several  nations,  France  and  America  in  the 
forelead,  have  reached  this  crumbling  state.  A  candid 

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VOLUNTARY  DYING  OF  POPULATION  55 

man  recognizes  that  his  own  life  has  not  been  worth 
the  ills  with  which  such  a  community  has  whipped  him, 
and  love  for  his  unconceived  children  prevents  him  from 
punishing  them  with  breath.  Men  that  have  done  it  even 
hate  and  murder  their  product.  Auburg  Closson,  a 
Pennsylvania  Eailroad  flagman  at  Bristol,  Pa.,  having 
two  feeble-minded  boys  who  could  not  help  him  in  the 
bread-struggle,  poisoned  them.  One  died  and  the  father 
was  arrested.  He  confessed,  saying  that  "he  was  having 
a  hard  time  getting  along  and  that  the  boys  were  heavy 
burdens  on  him,  so  he  wanted  to  get  them  out  of  the 
way."  (July  4,  '05. )  Many  poor  insure  their  children 
and  let  them  die.  The  more  forethoughted  do  not  invite 
children  whom  they  may  be  tempted  to  poison.  The 
Appraiser  of  the  Port  of  New  York  reported  on  June 
30th  of  the  same  year  that  "the  imports  of  diamonds 
and  other  precious  stones  were  largely  beyond  those  of 
any  other  year,"  indicating  the  steady  increase  of  the 
wealth  of  the  luxuried  class;  786  automobiles,  valued 
at  $3,000,000,  were  also  brought  in  during  that  period. 

On  the  2d  of  March,  still  of  the  same  year,  a  phenom- 
enon entirely  worthy  of  the  eve  of  the  great  French  Kevo- 
lution  befell  in  New  York.  Fifty  snow  shovellers  were 
advertised  for  in  a  newspaper,  and  soon  after  daylight 
over  300  men  had  assembled  to  receive  their  work  checks. 
When  the  signal  for  distributing  the  50  checks  was  given 
the  whole  body  rushed  for  them  and  immediately  en- 
gaged in  a  general  riot.  The  pasteboard  slips  were 
handed  out  in  an  instant  and  then  the  men  fought  furi- 
ously to  tear  them  away  from  each  other,  until  the  police 
reserves  arrived  to  club  them  into  peace.  The  battle 
raged  over  the  privilege  of  shovelling  snow  one  day  for 


56  MARRIAGE    AND    RACE    DEATH 

$2.  In  a  country  where  this  can  transpire  a  working- 
man  marrying  and  adding  a  child  to  the  army  wrangling 
for  crusts  is  almost  a  public  enemy. 

That  economic  pressure  destroying  population  in 
great  civilized  races  comes  not  from  lack  of  riches  but 
from  their  absorption  and  waste  by  monsters.  Static  or 
falling  population  and  popular  want  go  together,  and 
want  or  hardship  to  decently  live  is  the  cause  of  popu- 
lation death 

In  England  the  age  of  marriage  is  rising  and  the 
birth  rate  declining.  In  the  years  1901  and  ?02  the 
birth  rate  was  28.5  per  1,000,  the  lowest  rate  on  record 
up  to  that  time.  The  wretched  condition  of  the  work- 
ing population  of  English  cities  is  shown  in  that  "in  the 
five  years  from  1897  to  1901,  the  average  number  of 
deaths  among  infants  under  one  year  of  age  was  157  per 
1,000  births,  but  in  the  same  period  out  of  every  1,000 
children  born  in  the  city  districts  170  died,  while  for 
every  1,000  born  in  the  country  only  128  died.  The  aver- 
age mortality  among  boys  under  five  years  was  70.8  per 
1,000  in  the  towns  and  only  45.4  per  1,000  in  the  coun- 
try."* Here  are  42  children  under  a  year  old  in  every 
1,000  of  the  English  urban  population  directly  sacri- 
ficed to  the  greed  of  the  English  wealthy.  The  country 
death  rate  is,  however,  much  greater  than  it  should  be, 
from  the  same  cause — poverty,  and  the  country  people's 
ill  education  due  to  poverty.  Fifty  children  under  a 
year  old  dying  in  every  1,000  would  be  impossible  if  con- 
ditions were  right,  either  in  city  or  country;  so  that  we 
have  a  slaughter  of  107  infants  yearly  in  every  1,000  of 


"London    Chronicle    resume    of    the    65th   Annual    Eeport    of    the 
Registrar-General  of  Births,  Deaths,  and  Marriages. 


VOLUNTARY    DYING    OF    POPULATION  57 

the  English.  For  all  ages  the  death  rate  is  proportion- 
ately excessive. 

In  a  brood  of  barnyard  chickens  one  after  another  is 
beheaded  and  eaten  by  the  owner;  they  do  not  perceive 
their  fate  and  each  placidly  awaits  its  turn  for  the  guil- 
lotine and  oven.  The  common  people  have  long  flound- 
ered in  similar  stupidity  with  similar  fate,  but  are  at 
length  understanding  that  they  breed  children  to  inherit 
want  and  inflicted  death  and  are  abandoning  the  busi- 
ness. A  potential  parent  then  takes  the  suffering  of  his 
whole  posterity  upon  himself  and  it  is  done  forever. 

During  1905  a  London  baker,  Henry  Sautier,  died 
under  circumstances  which  led  the  coroner's  jury  to 
declare  him  worked  to  death  by  his  employer.  Another 
baker  testified  at  the  inquest  that  he  worked  104  hours 
a  week  for  $8  a  week,  supporting  with  it  a  wife  and  five 
children.  The  London  bakers  are  barbarously  rack- 
worked,  often  wearily  sleeping  in  their  bread  troughs, 
dirty  and  wet  as  they  are  with  rank  sweat  from  their  toil, 
which  subsequent  bread-eaters  eat,  A  German  baker  from 
Dresden,  resident  in  London  eleven  months,  stated  that 
his  hours  were  20  a  day,  that  the  bakers  were  allowed 
to  sleep  in  the  troughs  while  the  bread  was  baking,  and 
that  "nobody  would  eat  the  bread  if  they  knew  how  it 
was  made."  Friends  of  his  in  America  had  informed 
him  that  conditions  here  are  almost  as  filthy.  The  same 
writer  says  that  the  owner  of  a  London  laundry  was 
recently  heavily  fined  for  keeping  girls  from  16  to  19 
years  old  working  28  consecutive  hours  in  an  atmosphere 
of  steam  with  the  heat  100  degrees.  If  they  complained 
of  wreariness  they  were  instantly  discharged  and  their 
wages  held  back  for  imaginary  offences.* 

*London  letter  to  the  Milwaukee  Free  Press,  Feb.  25,  '05. 


58  MARRIAGE    AND    RACE    DEATH 

Into  facts  like  these  we  must  go  to  comprehend  the 
collapse  of  population.  Persons  thus  brutishly  ex- 
ploited will  present  the  world  degenerate  babes,  if  any. 
But  when  these  beings  realize  the  infamy  of  the  condi- 
tions thrust  upon  them  by  society  they  will  cease  to  peo- 
ple civilization  with  their  kind. 

France  is  giving  the  deepest  alarm  to  the  so-called 
thinkers  of  that  country.  Paul  Leroy-Beaulieu  says  she 
is  slowly  committing  suicide.  Mr.  Haynes,  U.  S.  Consul 
at  Rouen,  in  a  report  on  "The  Depopulation  of  France77 
just  written,  states  that  "Nearly  17  per  cent,  of  the 
families  of  France  are  childless;  more  than  24  per  cent, 
of  the  families  have  only  one  child,  while  only  9  per 
cent,  of  the  families  have  three  children."  The  excess  of 
births  over  deaths  in  1899  was  31,321;  in  1900  it  was 
only  20,330.  'Until  1850  France,  in  population,  was 
first  of  the  great  European  countries;  to-day  she  is  sixth, 
with  Italy  threatening  to  surpass  her  and  leave  her  sev- 
enth and  last.'  "In  1800  the  population  of  European 
nations  was  in  round  numbers  98,000,000,  of  which 
26,000,000  were  French ;  in  1900  the  figures  were,  respec- 
tively, 343,000,000  and  38,000,000.  Thus  France  had  26 
per  cent,  of  the  population  of  Europe  100  years  ago  and 
now  has  only  11  per  cent."  Mr.  Bertillon  may  truly 
say  that  France  'is  threatened  with  an  irremediable 
fall.' 

Strange  as  it  may  seem,  it  appears  that  America  is 
excelling  France  in  shrinkage  of  the  native  breed.  Writ- 
ing in  the  Medical  Record  (Jan.  31,  ?03),  Dr.  George  F. 
Shrady  said: 

"That  native-born  Americans  do  not  produce  children 
as  they  once  did  is  a  melancholy  but  fully  accepted  truth. 


VOLUNTARY    DYING    OF    POPULATION  59 

At  the  beginning  of  the  last  century  they  were  among 
the  most  prolific  races  of  the  world,  but  the  birth  rate 
of  the  native-born  American  has  been  steadily  decreasing, 
until  now  the  inhabitants  of  the  United  States  of  native 
stock  have  smaller  families  than  almost  any  of  the  civil- 
ized people  of  the  world."  "The  comparative  sterility  of 
native-born  American  women  is  a  serious  matter,  but  one 
which  has  forced  itself  upon  the  notice  of  thinking  per- 
sons. The  woman  of  this  country,  whose  ancestors  were 
born  here,  is  generally  averse  to  bearing  children.  She 
is,  as  a  rule,  of  fragile  make,  nervous  temperament,  and 
far  more  intellectual  than  are  women  of  other  nations. 
But  with  her  growth  of  brain-power  she  has  declined  in 
physique,  and  maternity,  with  her,  is  an  ordeal  to  be 
dreaded  and  avoided  if  possible.  Thus  it  probably  hap- 
pens that  the  birth  rate  among  native-born  Americans  is 
continually  decreasing." 

False  economic  ideas  and  the  evil  life  they  have 
engendered  have  brought  women  to  this  fragility  and  the 
breed  to  the  threshold  of  annihilation. 

J.  Weston,  in  a  study  of  the  subject,*  declares  that 
"nowhere,  not  even  in  France,  is  the  problem  so  serious 
as  it  is  in  the  United  States.  History  may  be  searched 
in  vain  to  find  a  parallel  for  a  country  dependent  on 
foreigners  for  its  vital  strength."  He  finds  that  in  no 
New  England  State  is  the  American  in  a  majority.  Dr. 
Jesse  Pickering,  of  Boston,  concluded  in  1851  "that  there 
was  no  natural  increase  in  the  strictly  American  popu- 
lation." In  1860  "it  was  discovered  that  the  first  genera- 
tion of  Americans  had  families  of  10  and  12 ;  the  second, 
third  and  fourth,  families  of  7  and  8 ;  the  fifth,  families 


*In  The  Nineteenth  Century  and  After,  Dec.,  '02. 


(50  MARRIAGE    AND    RACE     DEATH 

of  4  aud  5;  the  sixth,  families  of  3  and  less.-'  Our  early 
colonists  were  remarkably  fecund,  without  the  aid  of 
immigration,  doubling  themselves  in  25  years.  Since 
1850  'the  foreign  birth  rate  has  gained  on  the  American 
birth  rate  until  it  is  now  four  to  one  in  New  England,' 
and  though  in  lesser  degree  the  same  is  true  everywhere. 
In  Illinois  the  population  is  4,821,550,  of  which  966,747 
are  foreign  born  and  1,498,473  of  foreign  parentage. 
(Weston.)  Between  1820  and  1899,  the  same  writer 
says,  over  19,000,000  persons  settled  in  the  United  States, 
nearly  half  of  them  (over  8,000,000)  being  from  the 
United  Kingdom  and  Canada,  5,079,362  Germans  came 
in  that  period,  and  1,252,051  Swedes  and  Norwegians. 
Since  1893,  however,  Saxons;  Celts  and  Teutons  have 
fallen  off  and  the  foreigners  now  coming  are  mainly 
from  Eastern  and  Southeastern  Europe,  being  Italian, 
Slavish,  Jewish  and  Austro-Hungarian. 

The  character  of  the  immigration  reflects  the  pros- 
perity of  the  American  masses,  showing  that  it  can  now 
tempt  only  those  of  lowest  economic  condition  who  are 
able  to  reach  our  shores.  We  are  no  longer  the  haven 
of  the  oppressed,  but  only  something  less  of  an  evil  than 
the  inferno  of  Eussia  and  overpacked  Italy.  A  common 
American  who  now^  ventures  to  bring  a  child  into  life 
gives  it  little  better  chance  of  happiness  and  expansion 
than  were  he  its  parent  in  military  and  semi-feudal  Eng- 
land, France,  or  Germany.  Naturally  the  somewhat 
thoughtful  American  of  the  average  strata  will  recoil 
from  the  responsibility  of  dragging  offspring  into  this 
deadly  vortex  which  the  struggle  for  existence  has 
become. 

To  many  upper-class  Frenchmen  and  Americans  the 


VOLUNTARY    DYING    OF    POPULATION  61 

paramount  problem  is  how  to  increase  the  population 
by  enticing  natural  fecundity,  and  the  way  they  go  about 
it  is  very  illuminating.  In  France  they  founded  in  '96  a 
National  Alliance  for  Increasing  the  French  Popula- 
tion, and  adopted  as  two  of  their  leading  principles :  "It 
is  the  duty  of  every  man  to  contribute  to  the  prosperity 
of  his  country  as  much  as  it  is  his  duty  to  defend  it. 

"To  bring  up  a  child  is  a  duty  to  the  State  equiva- 
lent to  paying  taxes."  Further  urging  each  family  to 
have  at  least  three  children,  and  that  families  having 
more  than  three  should  be  exempt  from  taxation. 

How  unpractical  this  program !  If  all  families  took 
the  advice  there  would  be  no  tax  fund  of  consequence 
to  carry  on  the  State;  if  many  families  took  it  the 
remaining  would  be  so  burdened  by  their  heavier  taxa- 
tion that  they  would  either  restrict  their  families  to  one 
or  no  child,  or  migrate,  in  either  case  counteracting  the 
increase  of  population ;  while  it  would  embargo  marriage 
for  all  unwilling  to  assume  the  economic  burden  of  four 
children. 

The  causes  assigned  by  these  Frenchmen  for  their 
national  sterility  are  very  amusing  when  taken  in  larger 
perspective,  and  they  touch  us  because  the  same  cheap 
and  futile  remedies  are  advocated  here.  'Neglect  of 
religious  practices  and  beliefs7  is  one  of  the  chief  causes 
cited.*  In  the  poorest  departments  of  France  the 
diminution  of  the  birth  rate  is  not  yet  observed.  Natur- 
ally these  poorest  people  are  the  most  ignorant,  credulous 
and  least  swung  free  from  religious  thraldom.  Such 
reproduce  foresightless  like  birds,  shifting  responsibility 
for  their  population  on  to  God.  The  prescription  for 


*See  Haynes'  Consular  Eeport, 


62  MARRIAGE    AND    RACE    DEATH 

making  population  is  very  simple  from  this  point  of 
view,  viz. :  keep  the  people  brutishly  ignorant  and  they 
will  beastfully  propagate.  Under  the  screws  of  religion 
they  will  multitudinize  offspring,  thoughtless  of  the 
degradation  their  pig-like  progeny  are  to  welter  in.  They 
satisfy  the  theory  that  human  flesh  is  born  to  prop 
States. 

Paternal  selfishness  is  given  as  another  cause  of 
French  depopulation.  "Many  fathers,  who  would  have 
been  able  to  live  in  ease  if  they  had  a  limited  number  of 
children,  are  compelled  to  labor  on  very  earnestly  to  pro- 
vide for  the  family."  But  why  is  this  selfishness?  The 
father  may  wear  out  his  life  rearing  four  children  who 
will  consume  their  lives  rearing  four  more  each ;  what  is 
gained?  The  population  of  France  or  America  is  kept 
up,  but  who  profits  by  it?  Not  the  sorry  devils  who 
mangle  themselves  making  the  population.  And  with 
what  boon  does  a  man  bless  a  child  by  bringing  it  into 
a  galley- world  just  to  perpetuate  the  galleys? 

He  will  be  told  again  that  it  is  his  duty  to  aid  in  the 
perpetuation  of  his  country.  But  for  what  good,  and 
whose  good?  Not  for  his  own — what  material  or  spirit- 
ual profit  has  he  in  convict-like  work  all  his  days?  It 
is  abominable  to  tell  him  that  it  pays  him  to  make  the 
great  personal  sacrifice  required  to  continue  the  coun- 
try. And  his  children,  had  he  them,  doomed  each  to 
convict  toil  all  its  span,  would  feel  the  same  about  it. 
This  man  would  therefore  foolishly  deplete  himself  and 
bedevil  his  life  by  begetting.  He  cannot  see  point  in 
filching  himself  of  the  one  life  he  has  for  the  benefit  of 
this  machine  called  Country  which  demands  so  much  of 
him  and  gives  so  little  back.  Suppose  the  country  goes 


VOLUNTARY    DYING    OF    POPULATION  63 

down,  he  will  have  lived ;  whereas,  if  he  toils  for  children 
to  bear  the  country  up,  he  will  not  live,  nor  his  children. 
It  is  ghastly  to  demand  this  self-erasure  of  him. 

All  the  more  ghastly,  nay  damnable,  if  there  are  some 
few  who  gather  in  the  grain  of  this  manifold  sacrifice 
and  bloat  themselves  to  death  with  it;  who  erase  them- 
selves not  at  all,  but  swill  and  swill.  Some  people 
clamor  and  shriek  to  have  the  population  perpetuated, 
exhorting,  prodding  and  bribing  others  to  sacrifice  and 
populate.  Now  why?  Insist  on  knowing  why.  Because 
the  country  is  their  personal  estate,  kept  by  God  and 
worked  by  ass-man  for  their  welfare.  They  never  sacri- 
fice for  it,  they  exact  of  the  propagators  ad  infinitum 
immolations  for  it.  No  wonder  they  want  it  perpetu- 
ated, and  beg  others  to  sacrifice  and  agonize  to  keep  it 
up;  no  m!arvel  they  pray  for  patriotic  population  when 
the  population  is  to  be  their  clowns,  slaves  and  pack- 
asses 

These  people  have  fixed  incomes  which  all  other  crea- 
tures must  perpetually  pay,  and  if  human  population 
withers  these  incomes  shrink,  the  human  ass-element 
then  being  too  few  to  create  them. 


CHAPTER  VIII. 

RACE    DECAY    THROUGH    PATRIOTISM. 

These  fixed  incomes  are  the  key  of  modern  States, 
patriotism,  and  countries.  Countries  exist  for  the  fixed- 
income  clan,  and  inhabitants  lacking  such  incomes  exist 
for  the  possessors  of  them.  One  of  the  supposed  duties 
of  every  citizen  is  to  defend  his  country,  and  the  State 
enforces  it,  but  in  this  duty  the  citizen  is  merely  defend- 
ing the  fixed  incomes  and  the  loafers  and  conspirators 
that  enjoy  them.  If  any  one  disbelieves  in  States  and 
countries  as  organs  of  fixed  incomes  he  is  morally 
absolved  from  serving  in  war  to  defend  them,  but  the 
States  then  hound  him,  make  him  the  target  of  hate,  im- 
prison and  murder  him  for  declaring  his  right  to  exemp- 
tion. Why  is  this?  The  fixed  income  class,  being  the 
State  proprietors,  need  their  domains  defended  in  order 
to  preserve  their  incomes,  and  would  be  crazed  and  lost 
if  the  common  citizens  should  decline  to  surrender  their 
all  to  this  defence;  whence  they  shoot  each  independent 
resister  of  their  orders  as  a  traitor  to  his  country.  He 
is  merely  a  traitor  to  their  country,  not  to  his;  he  has 
no  country;  he  is  a  traitor  to  them,  to  their  fixed  in- 
comes; he  must  therefore  die. 

The  patriotism  instinct,  confirmed  by  killing  all  the 
disobedient,  usually  suffices  to  cause  the  many  to  die 

64 


RACE    DECAY    THROUGH    PATRIOTISM  65 

for  the  fixed-income  few.  Patriotism,  upon  close  inspec- 
tion, is  a  wondrous  emotion.  Since  fixed  incomes  are 
derived  from  and  supplied  by  the  many,  patriotism  is  a 
feeling  which  presses  the  many  to  compel  themselves  to 
exist  to  deliver  fixed  incomes  to  the  few. 

The  sentiment  can  be  so  managed  that  the  many  will 
shoot,  imprison  and  lynch  the  independent  men  of  their 
own  class  who  proclaim  their  emancipation  from  duty 
to  fixed  incomes,  however  frightfully  these  killers  and 
lynchers  themselves  groan  under  fixed-income  chains; 
for  the  patriotic  frenzy  being  age-old  and  blind  can 
easily  be  inflamed  to  perform  its  customary  deceit  and 
madden  the  suicidal  unreason  in  the  average  mind.  For, 
although  the  people  resent  fixed  incomes,  they  do  not 
resist  them  in  the  face  of  stupid  traditions  and  instincts 
of  ancient  cloth  like  partiotism.  They  likewise  pale 
before  the  proposition  of  rescinding  all  fixed  incomes 
outright,  because  it  conflicts  with  other  ancient  instincts 
clustering  about  property  rights,  which  are  really  prop- 
erty crimes. 

Now  these  shackles  of  instinct  have  caused  the  people 
to  invent  a  new  and  terrific  type  of  revolution ;  they 
combat  fixed-income  lords  in  a  manner  that  shelters  them 
from  being  shot  as  traitors  to  their  country  and  rebels 
against  property :  they  decline  to  manufacture  popula- 
tion. It  is  a  strike  against  calving  slaves.  It  is  a  people's 
injunction  upon  conception  which  no  Supreme  Court  or 
capitalist  bribery  can  lift.  It  is  a  boycott  on  the  pro- 
creation of  human  tenders  and  feeders  of  the  swilling 
rich.  If  really  understood  the  movement  is  tremendously 
significant,  being  a  profound  revolution  without  running 
counter  to  duties  for  disobeying  which  the  State  (fixed* 

2 


t>6  MARRIAGE    AND    RACE    DEATH 

income  holders)  has  established  its  right  to  slay  citizens. 
The  common  rabble's  refusal  to  child-bear  is  a  great 
social  rebellion.  The  Christian  religion  has  hitherto  held 
this  form  of  rebellion  in  check,  either  by  preserving  pop- 
ular ignorance  or  by  teaching  false  dogmas,  but  the  for- 
tunate collapse  of  religion  removes  this  check,  and  the  old 
doctrines  can  no  more  become  puissant  again  than  a  man 
who  has  lost  a  leg  can  grow  a  second  one. 

The  only  logical  way  to  fight  this  astonishing  social 
upheaval  is  with  the  weapons  for  quelling  other  forms 
of  insurrection  against  fixed  incomes  ("country"  and 
"property"),  namely,  the  bullet,  guillotine,  prison,  rope 
and  executioner's  chair.  In  other  words,  they  who  will 
not  beget  and  feed  up  at  least  four  children  to  generate 
unearned  wealth  for  the  thief  caste  should  be  executed  as 
traitors.  They  are  rebels  to  State,  Country  and  Society, 
of  which  unearned  incomes  are  base  and  apex.  If  thej7 
maintain  their  strike  against  propagating  slaves  to  repair 
and  rebuild  these  social  structures,  our  antiquated  prop- 
erty institutions  will  as  surely  fall  as  if  they  were  over- 
whelmed by  a  tidal  violent  uprising.  Since  common 
mankind  lay  and  hatch  the  eggs  of  wealth  for  their  own- 
ers, breeding  themselves  hen-like  to  fill  the  fixed-income 
nests,  if  they  extinguish  themselves  by  wrilful  infertility, 
the  fixed-income  system  dies  with  them. 

Income  owrners  clearly  foresee  their  fate,  but  un- 
happily for  them  they  cannot  murder  the  revolutionists, 
because  income  owners  of  the  past  neglected  to  establish 
the  State  right  to  execute  non-propagators  and  to  com- 
pound a  general  instinct  authorizing  their  murder. 
Religion  and  popular  ignorance  were  arrogantly  master- 
ful till  recently,  so  that  none  dreamed  the  time  could 


RACE    DECAY    THROUGH    PATRIOTISM  67 

come  when  Keligion  would  be  angrily  repudiated  by  the 
masses,  and  the  State  let  the  time  slip  when  it  could 
have  installed  non-propagation  as  a  mortal  crime. 
Keligion  taught  the  blessedness  of  procreating  immortal 
souls  for  heaven,  and  that  the  convict  years  of  earthly 
torture  for  the  benefit  of  the  fixed-income  fewr  was  the 
plan  of  Divinity  for  schooling  the  tortured  for  celestial 
joys.  The  State  rashly  trusted  Keligion,  that  with  these 
powerful  spiritual  screws  for  forcing  population  the 
child  output  of  the  fixed-income  producing  many  would 
never  fail.  So  in  the  earlier  days  when  it  might  have 
done  it  the  State  neglected  to  make  non-propagation 
punishable  with  death,  as  it  did  non-patriotism  or  refusal 
to  defend  fixed  incomes  with  life. 

We  now  find  the  French  Alliance  for  stimulating 
fecundity  striving  to  undo  this  error  by  identifying  non- 
propagation  with  non-patriotism.  But  it  is  too  late. 
Notice  that  neither  this  nor  any  other  population  alli- 
ance is  offering  to  abrogate  fixed  incomes. 

Yet  that  abrogation  alone  will  solve  the  problem  of 
population.  French  alliances  casting  about  bat-like  for 
the  smallest  thinkable  bribes  to  spur  the  people  to  prop- 
agate without  touching  fixed  incomes  are  ineffably  silly. 
They  have  hit  on  this :  while  they  cannot  hang  or  behead 
the  refusers,  they  hope  to  compel  them  to  carry  the 
whole  burden  of  the  State  on  their  backs,  by  wringing 
all  the  taxes  out  of  them.  With  these  taxes  are  to  be 
paid  the  annual  charges  on  the  national  and  municipal 
debts,  which  are  the  sources  of  many  of  the  unearned 
incomes,  so  that  any  man  who  participates  in  the  revo- 
lution of  depopulation  shall  be  heavily  penalized  by 
being  forced  to  provide  an  exorbitant  share  of  the  in- 
comes of  the  idlers. 


68  MARRIAGE    AND    RACE    DEATH 

The  registers  must  furnish  an  interest  alone  on 
the  debt  of  France  $223,000,000  annually.  This  debt, 
"including  the  debts  of  the  communes,  the  departments, 
Paris,  and  the  floating  debt,  amounts  to  about  $6,000,- 
000,000"  (Haynes'  Report).  The  two  hundred  and 
twenty-three  millions  interest  is  a  part  of  the  fixed 
incomes  which  the  common  citizens  must  create  and  of 
which  the  wealthy  own  the  large  blocks.  Why  does  it 
not  occur  to  the  Population  Alliance  to  propose  the  can- 
cellation of  this  egregious  debt  burden?  That  would  be 
a  real  relief  to  the  people,  and  many  whose  luxury 
expenditures  are  the  largest  would  not  thereafter  go 
scot  free.  For  the  rich  who  pay  a  tax  on  large  luxuries 
meet  it  out  of  the  sums  of  interest  or  dividend  incomes 
given  them  by  the  people,  so  that  luxury-taxes  are 
not  a  contribution  of  the  rich  to  the  support  of  the  State, 
but  of  the  poor  to  it. 

No  population-increaser  advocates  cancelling  public 
debts  to  equalize  popular  burdens,  as  that  would  begin 
the  destruction  of  fixed  incomes,  undermining  the  might 
of  the  privileged  for  which  States  exist.  Income  owners 
care  naught  for  preservation  of  States  if  it  must  be 
gained  by  vacating  their  privileges.  Their  plan  is  to 
invent  little  bribes  to  the  people  to  populate — then  to 
compel  the  people  themselves  to  pay  the  bribes.  The 
French  bribe  contemplated,  release  from  taxes,  imagines 
great  general  obtuseness;  for  if  half  of  the  people 
accept  the  bribe  by  having  four  children,  the  other  half 
will  pay  the  bribe  by  their  taxes  being  doubled,  while 
all  fixed  income  owners  will  harvest  their  incomes  as 
before,  increased  by  the  toil  and  competition  of  the  new 
population.  If,  to  escape  this  double  tax  burden,  the 


RACE    DECAY    THROUGH    PATRIOTISM  69 

second  half  should  now  conclude  to  have  four  children, 
the  promised  exemption  could  be  made  good  to  none, 
taxes  would  need  to  be  restored  as  at  first,  but  all  the 
people  would  have  been  wheedled  into  assuming  the  load 
of  four  children  without  any  offset  at  all.  Conditions 
for  all  but  the  fixed-incomers  would  sink  from  the 
entrance  of  fresh  souls  into  the  bread  struggle  in  a  glad- 
iatorial arena  already  packed.  Seizing  its  advantage 
the  income  class  would  cut  wage  and  salary,  taking  on 
to  itself  another  layer  of  wealth,  when  the  people  would 
find  themselves  doubly  swindled. 

Fixed  incomes  arise  not  only  from  interest  on  public 
debts,  which  are  a  machine  for  draining  human  milch 
cows  every  instant  under  the  aegis  of  patriotism,  but 
likewise  out  of  the  general  property  system,  which 
delivers  wealth  to  owners  and  to  non-owners  dependence 
and  poverty.  Factory,  ship,  railway  and  mine  owners 
take  fixed  incomes  from  the  people,  which  depend  on  a 
flush  and  regular  supply  of  the  poor  population.  State 
guarantees  and  protects  this  mechanism,  duty  to  perpet- 
uate State  by  calving  population  being  the  synonym  of 
giving  rich  men  industrial  profits.  Fixed  incomes  alter 
with  respect  to  size  and  within  narrow  limits  may  shift 
owners;  but  always  this  fact  is  dominant:  The  incomes 
are  invariably  confined  to  a  tiny  bunch  of  men  for  whom 
the  people  at  large  breathe,  breed  and  do  their  convict 
stints. 

There  would  be  no  trouble  in  obtaining  a  plenteous 
population  in  France  or  anywhere  if  unearned  incomes 
were  expunged.  Equal  adjustment  of  public  burdens- 
would  follow,  all  would  acquire  means  to  live  effectively 
and  rear  their  quota  of  children  needed  by  the  race: 


TO  MARRIAGE    AND    RACE    DEATH 

abolition  of  all  forms  of  fixed  income  is,  therefore,  inevit- 
able. 

With  these  burdens  strapped  on  him  the  wise  French- 
man chooses  to  live  his  life  and  let  his  country  sink. 
Judged  by  all  prevailing  standards  of  morals  he  is 
right.  As  the  rich  employ  "country"  for  a  weapon  of 
raid  and  pillage  to  enhance  their  owrn  luxuries,  the  people 
must  either  take  both  country  and  property  from  them 
or  find  some  less  dramatic  but  not  less  efficient  means 
to  circumvent  them.  Prevalent  morals,  the  ethics  of 
fixed-income  thieves  and  canting  philosophasters,  pro- 
hibits the  former  course  as  highly  revolutionary  and 
wrong :  so  the  people  are  driven  to  less  overtly  strenuous, 
and  unforbidden,  but  really  far  more  drastic  measures — 
voluntary  depopulation,  whose  end  is  extinction  not  only 
of  fixed  incomes  and  property,  but  of  State,  Country  and 
Race. 

Such  is  the  natural  method  of  the  timid  and  semi- 
enlightened.  The  French  are  inebriated  with  false 
morality.  Were  they  sober  they  would  nib  out  the  public- 
debt  and  all  unearned  incomes :  but  if  not  up  to  this,  they 
had  better  depopulate  France  as  they  are  doing. 

Other  nations  as  they  awaken  will  either  follow-  the 
French  in  sterilization,  or  if  saner  and  braver  wTill  erase 
the  rich.  The  American  situation  differs  from  that  of 
France,  and  how  it  is  working  out  here  will  be  later 
shown.  The  general  law  is.  In  no  civilized  land  arc 
people  justified  in  child-bearing  unless  with  a  view  to 
destroying  the  system  of  fixed  incomes. 


CHAPTER    IX. 

ORIGIN  OF  BELLY  BILLIONAIRES. 

Since  the  fixed  income  is  the  pivot  of  modern  status, 
and  since  many  quite  good  thinkers  cannot  untangle 
their  minds  from  its  magnetism,  something  regarding 
its  origin  will  explain  the  remarkable  phenomenon  of 
its  obtaining  a  grip  on  the  United  States  so  powerful  as 
to  suppress  population,  stifle  noble  ideals,  and  fully  cor- 
rupt the  people. 

Kings  and  emperors  wrought  the  doctrine  up  to  per- 
fection. They  established  their  power  not  only  by  treach- 
ery, murder  and  force,  but  by  the  arts  of  dazzling. 
Excessive  magnificence  has  always  been  a  singularly 
potent  support,  while  also  the  major  emblem  of  king- 
ship, acting  on  the  people  to  charm,  overawe  and  sub- 
due them.  Kingship  established  the  right  of  personal 
magnificence,  and  all  rank  and  standing  came  to  be  mea- 
sured by  degree  of  material  splendor.  The  original 
standard  was  sheer  brute  force,  later  succeeded  by  ma- 
terial magnificence,  both  of  them  growths  prior  to  the 
emergence  of  conscience  and  higher  brain.  From  the 
viewpoint  of  conscience  and  brain  human  grading 
through  material  magnificence  is  not  only  crude,  clown- 
ish and  silly,  but  the  right  of  such  magnificence  is  an 
outrage.  It  is  a  pernicious,  death-fraught  relic  of  our 

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72  MARRIAGE    AND    llACfc    DEATH 

mental  savagery,  as  the  vermiform  appendix  is  an  offend- 
ing and  destructive  survival  in  the  body. 

But  kings  having  established  the  practice  all  persons 
of  lower  mentality  and  superior  brutality  toadied  in 
their  wake.  All  over  the  world  inferior  minds  pursue 
material  wealth  and  estimate  human  values  from 
degrees  of  material  magnificence.  And  inferior  minds 
being  still  in  bulky  excess,  they  give  their  scurvy  stand- 
ard dominance.  The  wealth  chaser  and  pomp  fakir  are 
low-built  men  invariably,  baser  in  brain  stuff  than  their 
fellows  who  can  conceive  and  pursue  ungainful  aims. 
All  the  materially  higher  classes  of  the  wrorld  are 
inwardly  rotten,  all  wealthy,  royal  and  aristocratic  socie- 
ties are  stamped  and  cursed  with  plebeian  mentality, 
while  the  earth's  patricians  are  the  seekers  of  human 
ennoblement. 

It  was  originally  believed  that  a  superior  breed  of 
men  had  peopled  the  United  States.  Either  this  was  an 
error  or  the  breed  precipitately  fell,  until  now  it  is 
unbeaten  in  baseness,  greed  and  corruption  by  any  civil- 
ized people,  the  Russian  ruling  class  excepted.  They 
excel  us.  The  material-splendor  standard  immigrated 
hither  and  rapidly  evolved,  private  citizens  out-blazing 
the  glory  of  kings.  It  was  the  triumph  of  stupidity;  for 
the  canaille  in  character  dominated,  and  the  mud  gods 
of  the  canaille — the  Rockefellers,  Morgans,  Astors,  Car- 
negies,  Vanderbilts,  Harrimans,  Goulds  and  their  breed, 
became  autocrat  despots  of  American  life.  These  un- 
couth intellects,  living  by  highway  robbery,  literally 
simian  types  of  man,  not  only  transplanted  kingly  stand- 
ards of  brutish  and  morbid  materialism  to  this  country, 
but  forced  them  to  an  equatorial  growth,  restoring  and 


ORIGIN     OF     BELLY     BILLIONAIRES  73 

distending  the  institutions  of  a  shabbier  brain  period. 
The  actual  dregs  of  the  American  race,  its  spiritual  cads, 
clods  and  clowns,  by  vaulting  cunning  and  scientific 
infamy,  have  vanquished  the  higher  brain  men. 

Their  victory  instrument  was  the  fixed  income.  No 
man  with  what  he  personally  earns  can  install  the  gor- 
geousness  of  an  Oriental  potentate,  but  the  unearned 
income  allows  the  vulgar  American  to  blossom  into  a 
Hog  Lord  of  oil,  steel,  railways,  banks,  or  beef,  and  to 
out-blaze  all  material  suns.  The  principle  of  the  fixed 
income  is  thievery;  it  takes  what  others  make.  But  if 
men  could  really  earn  these  great  incomes  they  would 
have  no  right  to  them,  owing  to  the  evil  effects  of  owning 
them. 

Admitting  this  fatal  income  principle  into  a  new 
country  with  prodigious  raw  resources,  it  was  pre- 
destined that  obsolete  refuse  kingship  would  burst  out 
in  more  tragic,  damning  grandeur  than  the  world  in  its 
whole  history  had  known;  the  hand  of  progress  would 
be  turned  back;  and  before  the  lost  ground  could  be 
recovered  rivers  of  domestic  blood  would  be  likely  to 
flow.  But  we  have  made  the  mental  canaille  our  kings 
and  the  battle  is  before  us. 

Material  grandeur  with  kings  Avas  the  aim  of  power 
and  a  trick  to  gain  more  power,  and  as  it  throve  at  the 
cost  of  popular  liberty  and  development,  it  was  illegiti- 
mate. But  as  kings  possessed  the  argument  of  death 
— brute  force — they  eventually  compelled  their  subjects 
to  yield  and  actually  to  believe  in  the  justice  of  flaming 
pomp  and  damning  display.  They  stamped  this  belief 
in  their  subjects  by  force.  "It  was  not  till  Cesare  Bor- 
gia displayed  his  magnificence  at  the  French  Court,  till 


74  MARRIAGE    AND    RACE    DEATH 

the  Italian  adventurer  matched  itself  with  royalty  in  its 
legitimate  splendor ,  that  the  lowness  of  his  origin  and 
the  frivolity  of  his  pretensions  appeared  in  any  glaring 
light,"  says  Symonds.  As  if  the  splendor  of  courts 
had  ever  been  legitimate  or  other  than  what  monarchs 
were  able  to  extort  or  wheedle  from  their  people  to  the 
tetter's  ruin. 

Monarchs  and  powerful  courtiers  having  legitimized 
grandeur  by  murder,  private  citizens  aped  them,  bor- 
rowing their  right  of  blasting  magnificence,  which  at 
length  took  its  place  firmly  as  a  settled  justified  benefi- 
cent concomitant  of  wealth.  The  system  enacted  was 
this:  The  people,  empty  of  spirit  to  combat  kingly  en- 
croachment which  degraded  all,  solaced  themselves  by 
encroaching  on  each  other,,  all  in  the  measure  of  their 
capacity,  creating  a  hierarchy  of  brutality.  The  suc- 
cessful, though  louts  and  flunkeys,  flogged  and  spewed 
upon  by  the  silken  king  and  courtiers,  gulped  their 
ignominy  and  cheered  the  king  in  return  for  the  dia- 
bolic joy  they  found  in  applying  the  screws  of  degrada- 
tion to  companions  of  their  own  class.  It  was  a  world 
of  sneaks  and  snakes.  A  perfect  system  of  devilish 
meanness  was  evolved  which  in  our  day  has  attained 
the  zenith  of  infamy.  Contemptible  simian  citizens 
with  humanity  burnt  out  by  this  riotous  impulse  to 
gorge  and  oppress,  are  turning  their  fellows  into  demons 
and  stampeding  society  to  a  vertical  cliff  of  death.  All 
the  vilest  attributes  of  kingship  have  been  imported  here 
by  private  persons  of  this  festering  moral  stamp,  whose 
orgasms  of  power  and  splendor  exceed  the  lurid  waste  of 
a  hundred  kings,  who  know  no  responsibility,  who  ren- 
der back  no  pay  to  the  people  for  their  orgies,  and  who 
turn  the  lives  of  the  many  to  grief  and  ashes. 


ORIGIN     OF     BELLY     BILLIONAIRES  75 

They  do  it  by  claiming  the  private  right  of  fixed 
income  which  kings  grabbed  by  popular  strangulation 
and  maintained  by  endless  organized  butchery  of  the  free 
and  just-spirited,  until  by  the  natural  selection  of  mur- 
der}  higher  intelligence  and  a  true  sense  of  freedom  had 
been  torn  out  of  mankind  and  only  slaves  survived  to 
propagate  slaves.  This  is  why  certain  men,  below  apes 
in  character  and  moral  grade,  the  Morgan,  Rockefeller, 
Eyan,  Rogers,  Harrirnan,  Vanderbilt,  Belmont,  Astor, 
Carnegie,  Armour,  Gould  variety,  can  enthrall,  cuff, 
kick,  debauch  and  revolutionize  a  nation  of  eighty  mil- 
lions. Reviving  in  a  new  land  a  principle  formed  and 
fed  by  murder,  legitimized  only  by  the  ruffian  ruler's 
bludgeon,  a  principle  foul,  senseless,  savage,  ridiculous, 
satanic,  jamming  man  down  to  the  moral  depths  of  Aus- 
tralian Bushmen,  these  detestable  usurpers  begin  again 
the  old  sport  of  making  mankind  a  devil's  ladder,  each 
fearing  and  hating  the  other,  every  man's  worth  meas- 
ured alone  by  the  number  of  brothers  he  can  batter  and 
crush — by  the  neighbors  he  can  scalp  of  property  and 
skin  of  food.  Since  the  uncorking  of  the  insurance  cess- 
pools, even  the  press  of  the  rich  acknowledge  with  the 
New  York  Sun  that  "In  our  commercial  life  a  man  who 
allows  himself  to  be  driven  out  of  business,  who  sacri- 
fices his  material  self,  for  a  principle,  is  brutally  and 
ruthlessly  classified  as  a  fool." 

The  antic  extravagances  of  the  excrescent  German 
emperor,  borne  by  an  unripe  people,  illumine  our  prin- 
ciple. This  half  insane  man's  annual  income  is  about 
$5,000,000.  He  owns  83  landed  estates  comprising  250- 
000  acres.  Of  hie  income  the  Prussian  people  present 
him  with  a  salary  of  four  millions  a  year.  Many  of 


76  MARRIAGE    AND    RACE    DEATH 

the  generous  Prussian  wage-serfs  and  peasant  boors  do 
not  know  if  they  will  have  a  next  meal  after  paying  their 
imperial  Moloch.  Besides  a  magnificent  court  for  him- 
self, the  Koyal  Parasite  maintains  costly  separate  courts 
for  his  relatives.  His  own  is  thus  described:  "There 
is  a  Minister  of  the  Imperial  house,  a  director  of  the 
Imperial  household,  a  director  of  the  royal  archives,  and 
four  councilors  of  the  royal  household.  There  is  a  presi- 
dent of  heraldry,  a  senior  lord  in  waiting,  a  court  mar- 
shal, a  master  of  the  hunt,  a  master  of  the  kitchen,  a 
master  of  the  royal  chambers,  a  house  marshal,  a  mas- 
ter of  the  stables,  a  master  of  ceremonies,  and  numerous 
councilors  attached  to  all  these  departments."  The 
keep  of  these  idle  parasites  costs  the  Prussian  poor  their 
own  rights  to  eat  and  live. 

But  when  the  Imperial  Vampire  travels  his  splendor 
shines  unparalleled.  "Wherever  he  goes  he  is  accom- 
panied by  a  large  suite  of  officers  and  gentlemen  and 
of  household  and  court  officials.  He  takes  with  him  his 
own  carriages,  his  own  horses,  his  own  coachmen  and 
grooms,  his  own  stablemen,  his  saddlers,  his  smiths,  and 
so  forth.  As  he  journeys  his  entire  study  is  transported 
from  place  to  place.  During  his  recent  Mediterranean 
trip  the  Kaiser  give  away  eighty  diamond  rings,  a 
hundred  and  fifty  diamond  pins,  thirty-three  necklaces, 
thirty  golden  watches,  a  hundred  golden  cigarette  cases, 
and  twenty  other  articles  of  jewelry  to  various  persons 
from  whom  he  received  attentions  in  the  course  of  the 
journey.  The  whole  Mediterranean  trip  is  estimated  to 
have  cost  over  sixty  thousand  pounds.  The  cost  of  the 
Kaiser's  journey  to  Palestine  six  years  ago  exceeded  one 
hundred  thousand  pounds." 


ORIGIN     OF     BELLY     BILLIONAIRES  77 

This  model  anciently  set  up  by  rapine  and  murder  in 
the  ages  before  morality,  is  the  source  of  capitalist  gran- 
deur^ so  that  the  basis  of  present  rich  men's  magnifi- 
cence is  the  whole  past  fabric  of  human  crime. 

In  Germany  the  natural  increase  of  population 
(excess  of  births  over  deaths)  in  1899  was  795,107,  which 
may  mean  that  the  people,  duller  than  the  French, 
acquiesce  in  a  life  enslaved  to  Fixed  Incomes;  or  it  may 
mean  that  they  expect  by  greatening  the  population  to 
embitter  the  struggle  to  exist  and  so  wake  the  people 
out  of  their  cradle  morals  by  suffering,  and  abolish 
unearned  incomes. 

Granting  the  Kaiserly  right  to  this  murderous  splen- 
dor while  the  people  hunger,  a  right  still  watch-dogged 
by  governmental  assassination,  private  citizens  are  like- 
wise entitled  to  blaze  at  the  cost  of  popular  ruin,  and 
the  murder  forces  of  the  Imperial  State  will  uphold 
them,  since  the  ruler  must  defend  them  to  vindicate  his 
right  to  baleful  magnificence. 

American  repudiation  of  kingship  was  intrinsic  rejec- 
tion of  all  the  ravenous  claims  and  fraudulent  rights 
erected  by  butcher  kings  with  their  state  tools  of  Force 
and  Assassination.  We  adopted  a  State  whose  single 
unique  sanction  is  the  equal  good  of  all  citizens.  Our 
millionaires  have  reintroduced  the  European  criminal 
State  with  its  cowardly  criminal  functions,  and  restored 
the  sovereignty  of  Force  and  Murder  to  protect  them 
in  the  swing  of  their  kingly  pomp. 

So  these  millionaires  are  traitors  to  the  American 
principle  and  Kepublic.  In  every  sense  that  men  can  be 
enemies  of  their  country  and  countrymen,  they  are.  The 
uplift  to  groping  and  bleeding  mankind  which  this  nation 
seemed  destined  to  give,  they  have  frustrated.  By  that, 


~8         '  MARRIAGE    AND    RACE    DEATH 

they  have  made  themselves  curses,  loathsome  betrayers  of 
the  human  race,  which  had  the  right  of  lofty  hope  in  the 
American  undertaking.  It  is  a  treachery  of  which  there 
is  no  mitigation.  If  a  wasting  plague  dried  the  blood 
of  nine  in  every  ten  of  mankind,  its  evil  would  be  light 
compared  with  them.  What  are  they?  Czar  gourmands 
of  our  body  and  spirit  life.  Think  of  a  great  people, 
bullied,  cowed,  scourged,  deviled,  grovelling  to  the 
sovereignty  of  a  score  or  so  of  Hog  Czars !  Yet  in  verity 
these  Czars  are  literal  fiends  and  hogs,  who  from  seats 
of  blood  on  the  tomb  of  liberty,  with  Caliban  minds,  mon- 
grel of  devil  and  brute,  rule  us.  For  they  do  what 
fiends  would  do  were  they  given  control  of  the  world. 
They  hog  all  they  can  get  and  the  people  rot  in  want. 
That  is  the  fiend  role. 

Sensitive  ladies  and  gentlemen  of  piety  and  culture, 
with  stomachs  full  and  fine  homes,  ask  yourselves  in 
honest  calm  if  this  is  not  true.  I  call  a  man  bloatedly 
and  gorgedly  rich,  with  thousands  of  wretches  starved 
and  lank  crawling  over  his  very  feet,  pleading  for  life, 
with  ghastly,  foodless  babes  among  them,  whom  lie  sees, 
whom  lie  makes  that  they  are  'by  his  gorging — I  call 
that  man,  in  the  language  of  exact  science,  a  hoy,  a  fiend. 
If  you  were  writhing  under  the  iron  whip  of  want,  if 
you  were  mentally  capable  of  imagining  yourselves 
locked  in  the  cell  of  poverty  where  millions  of  Americans 
now  waste,  feeling  yourselves  inch  by  inch  dying  for 
gorgers  to  gorge,  while  these  belly  billionaires  thunder 
by  in  their  chariots,  you  would  say  my  language  is  exact. 
You  would  marvel  at  my  moderation.  Yes,  even  you, 
belly  billionaire  worshipers.  But  if  you  are  luxury- 
sogged  and  dollar-drugged  you  will  call  me  your  enemy, 
I  am. 


CHAPTER  X. 

AMERICAN  RACE  REVERSION. 

We  shall  now  examine  the  consequences  to  the 
present  American  race  of  this  American  reversion.  The 
decay  of  our  population  is  due  in  part  to  the  new  in- 
sight that  it  is  no  longer  worth  wrhile  to  people  the 
world  for  the  lives  that  men  lead.  As  already  shown,  a 
man  who  does  so  is  little  short  of  a  criminal.  The  func- 
tion of  present  marriage  is  to  multiply  young  for  the 
hoppers  of  the  rich,  where  they  are  ground  into  wealth 
which  they  never  enjoy  and  hastened  to  their  graves,  hav- 
ing had  nothing  to  justify  being  born.  One  of  the  work- 
men in  the  mills  at  Ramapo  near  New  York  said,  "We 
all  have  to  drink  here  to  bear  up  under  this  work."  To 
marry  with  the  purpose  of  a  family  in  this  economic 
order  is  a  travesty,  and  a  sin  against  the  children,  who 
may  well  curse  their  parents  for  afflicting  them  with 
life.  The  question  cannot  be  brushed  away,  what  right 
these  parents  have  to  people  up  the  factories,  farms, 
mines,  department  stores  and  counting  houses  of  the 
rich.  The  answer  is,  no  right.  By  parentage  a  man 
becomes  his  child's  enemy.  The  unborn  themselves 
mutely  appeal  against  being  shunted  from  unconscious 
peace  into  this  sphere  of  tragedy.  Here  are  wretched- 
ness, festering  swindle  and  defeat:  there  rest.  Their 

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begetters  yield  to  a  gust  of  passion,  forgetting  the  cost 
to  the  life  they  violate.  If  parents  elect  to  wallow  in 
tragedy,  stunting  and  degradation,  they  cannot  be  for- 
^  given  for  projecting  other  creatures  into  the  welter  es- 
tablished by  their  cowardice. 

Such  are  unfit  to  breed  a  race;  their  progeny,  being 
worse  poltroons  than  themselves,  will  suffer  more  miser- 
ably; and  for  such  vitiated  stock  the  right  thing  is 
painless  self-abolishment  by  transmitting  its  penury  of 
stamina  no  further.  In  view  of  both  the  offspring's  suf- 
fering and  the  quality  of  the  race,  it  is  well  for  such 
stock  to  die;  the  'best  family  is  therefore  the  sterile 
family. 

If  this  doctrine  prevails  generally  Western  civiliza- 
tion may  become  extinct.  But  is  this  civilization  as  it 
prevails  to-day  worth  preserving?  And  is  the  life  of 
the  races  that  have  produced  and  embody  it  worth 
while?  For  my  part  I  answer  unhesitatingly  no.  The 
present  American,  British,  French,  German  and  Rus- 
sian races  ought  to  expire,  to  be  supplanted  by  breeds 
of  higher  potentiality.  Perhaps  the  common  Russian 
people  have  a  germ  of  this  future  quality,  but  the  other 
peoples  seem  like  decayed  families,  stamina  gone  and  the 
day  of  rejuvenation  past.  They  have  become  morally 
stationary.  The  best  thing  that  can  happen  for  them 
and  mankind  is  extinction. 

It  will  not  do  to  take  this  position  without  a  suffi- 
cient statement  of  the  reasons  which  fortify  it:  these 
reasons  are  found  in  the  principles  of  Western  civiliza- 
tion. Western  civilization  stands  for  private  magnifi- 
cence and  luxury  against  personal  and  general  develop- 
ment; it  stands  for  a  system  that  crushes  the  weak  and 


AMERICAN     RACE     REVERSION  81 

defeats  the  beet — where  indeed  the  best  even  more  than 
the  weak  are  crushed,  neutred,  destroyed ;  it  deifies  power 
against  quality;  it  is  a  system  in  which  the  nations 
spend  their  last  farthing  and  uttermost  strength  in 
mutual  stabbing  and  annihilation:  each  European  na- 
tion group  is  a  camp  organized  for  the  savagest  inter- 
mutual  murder,  and  America  by  her  Philippine  policy 
and  Eooseveltian  bullying  launched  wilfully  upon  the 
same  infamous  fate ;  it  is  a  civilization  carried  on  every- 
where for  the  benefit  of  a  few  specialized  criminals:  in 
Russia  for  the  Czaral  house  and  Bureaucracy,  dens  of 
thieves ;  in  America  for  the  millionaires,  a  band  of  blood- 
thirsty pirate  outlaws;  in  other  countries  king-crew 
and  aristocracy  are  joined  with  monarch  manufacturer 
and  financier  to  strangle  the  people  with  whitewashed 
hands ;  a  civilization  wherein  these  petty  nations  remain 
selfishly  foes  to  one  another  for  the  vile  and  mean  pri- 
vate ends  of  the  nations'  masters,  in  place  of  uniting  as 
higher  brain  dictates  for  the  evolution  of  the  world;  a 
civilization  nursing  cruel  and  brutish  race-hatreds,  per- 
secuting if  not  murdering  the  Jew  after  ages  of  maltreat- 
ment, forcibly  incorporating  the  negro  into  society  as  a 
slave  and  then  despising,  socially  ostracizing  and  often 
hanging  and  roasting  him,  because  he  is  here,  though 
demonically  dragged  here  by  us ;  a  civilization  ae  in  the 
United  States  wanting  moral  strength  to  choke  off  and 
exterminate  a  gang  of  the  mentally  crudest  and  morally 
foulest  vampires  known  to  modern  life,  the  rich,  who 
rose  in  one  night,  drank  the  blood  of  the  palsied  people, 
and  drink  it  still. 

This  without  a  note  of  exaggeration,   indeed  with 
far  understatement,  is  the  civilization  we  are  warned  to 


82  MARRIAGE    AND    RACE    DEATH 

preserve;  races  with  these  moral  atrocities  as  the  warp 
and  woof  of  their  character  are  the  vessels  of  the  civiliza- 
tion: they  ought  to  pass  away,  we  hope  that  they  will 
pass  away,  and  that  means  of  producing  new  races,  or 
one  enfolding  race  lifted  above  the  principles  and  crimes 
of  civilization,  will  be  found.  If  not,  let  these  breeds 
lapse  to  destruction  and  die  as  not  worthy  to  cumber 
earth. 

Thus  we  take  our  stand  uncompromisingly  for  the 
dying  of  the  present  great  brutish  types  and  their 
principles.  We  are  not  afraid  to  say,  let  the  races  cease 
to  breed;  in  doing  so  you  will  be  promoting  the  evolu- 
tion of  the  world,  or  at  least  freeing  it  from  the  stain  of 
your  existence.  The  Japanese,  inferior  to  us  in  the  prin- 
ciples of  this  precious  civilization,  conquered  Kussia  be- 
cause they  were  in  possession  of  principles  far  superior 
to  those  of  civilized  tribes.  Might  makes  Right  is  the 
Americo-English-German-Russian  first  principle,  both 
as  nations  and  units — Eight  makes  Might  was  the  prin- 
ciple of  the  uncivilized  Japs;  luxury  and  magnificence 
though  your  brothers  in  civilization  starve  dead  is  the 
law  of  the  Christianized  enlightened  West:  of  the  be- 
nighted men  of  Dai  Nippon  it  is  rugged  simplicity  and 
united  devotion  to  something  above  belly. 

These  are  really  traits  of  a  race  above  civilization. 
It  is  not  necessary  that  a  race  should  pass  through  the 
fen  of  civilization  to  reach  a  higher  status:  civilization 
is  a  coil  of  consummate  stupidity  which  a  bright  race 
would  skip,  especially  with  our  example  before  it.  Yet 
civilized  peoples  await  with  hope  the  civilizing  corrup- 
tion of  Japan,  lest  if  she  avoids  sinking  in  the  common 
Christian  mire  the  supremacy  of  the  races  debauched  in 


AMERICAN     RACE     REVERSION  83 

civilization  way  be  menaced.  While  British  officers  of 
all  grades  conducted  a  systematic  swindle  of  the  British 
government  and  people  in  the  South  African  Avar,  the 
Japanese  in  Canada  and  here  sent  home  part  of  their 
wages  to  aid  in  the  struggle  with  Russia,  and  Japanese 
officials  voluntarily  sought  a  reduction  of  their  salaries. 
This  nobility  is  attributed  to  their  barbarism,  to  the 
patriotic  but  dying  tribal  spirit.  "Like  other  races  they 
will  run  their  course;"  writh  individualism  all  the  dis- 
honesty, fraud  and  meanness  of  a  higher  civilization 
will  appear ;  "there  need  be  no  uneasiness  over  the  yellow 
peril,  for  the  symptoms  of  that  national  old  age  which 
is  weakening  Russia  and  other  European  countries  will 
also  develop  in  Japan."  (Toronto  Globe.)  How7  expres- 
sive of  total  character  decay  is  this  sigh  of  joy  that  an 
honest  and  decent  folk  will  morally  rot  like  the  rest 
of  us! 

But  therein  lies  the  mistake.  As  new  races  appeared 
to  replace  the  rotten  Romans,  new  ones  will  rise  to  dis- 
place the  five  great  branches  of  rotten  civilization. 
Japan  may  be  in  the  van  of  these  dawning  nations. 
These  new  breeds  will  bring  or  form  a  moral  quality 
which  we  in  our  senile  avarice  and  chronic  neuroses  of 
swindle  and  hate,  cannot  even  think.  It  is  not  intended 
here  to  study  the  evolution  of  these  races.  It  is  not 
unlikely  that  the  negro  will  be  one  of  them,  or  possibly 
a  cross  between  the  negro  and  white.  The  possibilities 
of  higher  cross  races  remain  to  be  evolved. 

The  negro  already  displays  the  germs  of  traits  loftier 
than  the  white  man's.  He  should  be  cultivated  not  tQ 
become  a  repetition  of  the  white,  but  to  evolve  a  variety 
of  his  own  kind,  with  characters  supplemental  to  ours, 


84  MARRIAGE    AND    RACE    DEATH 

with  which  he  will  hereafter  enrich  us  by  interbreeding. 
The  negro  is  a  priceless  American  possession.  Look  at 
what  he  has  already  done  here,  although  but  one  remove 
from  Africa.  He  is  our  great  race  opportunity;  we 
can  with  him,  because  he  is  among  us,  work  out  the 
problem  how  swiftly  a  backward  race  may  be  evolved 
with  help,  while  we  can  use  him  for  our  own  culture 
and  purification  by  eradicating  toward  him  one  of  civil- 
izations worst  vices — race  antipathy.  Where  the  negro 
is  treated  as  human  he  is  a  worthy  and  delightful  social 
factor,  spicing  the  emptiness  of  the  white  man's  cultured 
intercourse.  But  let  the  black  be  encouraged  to  de- 
velop his  best  powers,  not  to  copy  the  shoddy  qualities  of 
the  white  nowr  viling  human  life.  Then,  in  later  inter- 
breeding, he  will  have  great  things  to  add  to  us,  and  he 
may  shame  us  into  cherishing  our  own  real  qualities.  A 
mixture  of  Japanese  and  Aryan  bloods  might  correct 
the  brutality  of  civilization,  the  former  being  apparently 
of  more  delicate  and  elevated  fibre  than  Western  man. 
The  narrowness  of  race  chasms  is  attested  by  the 
following  facts  known  by  the  writer  as  authentic.  At 
the  St.  Louis  World's  Fair  a  strong  affinity  developed 
between  American  women  and  girls  and  our  brown 
fellow-citizens,  the  visiting  Filipinos.  After  the  latters' 
departure  an  investigation  of  photograph  galleries  re- 
vealed that  something  like  300  sittings  of  Filipinos  with 
American  girls  in  various  postures  of  affection  had  been 
taken.  The  photographers  stated  that  the  girls  were  of 
respectable  families.  Seventeen  girls  were  in  women's 
hospitals  at  one  time  after  they  went.  One  American 
school  teacher  taken  with  a  Filipino  and  arrested,  of- 
fered a  diamond  ring  and  other  things  to  the  officer  for 


AMERICAN     RACE     REVERSION  85 

freedom  and  silence.  The  daughter  of  a  wealthy  family 
visited  a  physician  for  counsel,  confessing  her  relation 
with  a  Filipino.  One  "respectable  and  wealthy"  man 
sued  for  divorce,  naming  a  naked  Iggorote  as  co-respond- 
ent. It  is  easy  to  turn  from  these  facts  with  astonish- 
ment and  to  neglect  their  racial  bearing.  They  indicate 
nature's  deep  inclination  to  cross  widely  different 
breeds;  it  is  nature's  wise  will  to  experiment,  with  the 
probability  of  striking  out  a  higher  human  variation 
than  we  yet  have.  There  would  doubtless  be  the  same 
attraction  toward  the  negro  if  a  local  prejudice  were  not 
inflamed  against  him  as  a  previous  slave. 

The  negro  may  hoAvever  be  instrumental  of  higher 
race  evolution  in  another  way.  Debarred  by  our  stupid 
prejudice  from  social  fusion  with  the  whites,  he  may 
conceive  of  an  independent  development  in  our  midst 
on  higher  lines  than  civilization,,  which,  being  more  ra- 
tional and  representing  abler  adaptation  to  life,  would 
enable  him  to  displace  the  merely  civilized  Caucasian. 
The  sins  and  senselessness  of  civilization  are  so  manifest 
and  entail  so  heavy  a  load  that  peoples  even  a  little  more 
intelligent  could  easily  survive  at  the  expense  of  the 
civilized. 

There  are  two  ideas  which  will  give  the  peoples 
adopting  them  certainty  of  survival  at  the  expense  of 
races  that  reject  them :  namely,  frugal  simplicity  of  life., 
and  material  equality.  Under  these  principles  the  prod- 
uct of  a  given  amount  of  the  people's  labor  would  reach 
farther,  enabling  the  race  to  be  more  prolific,  and  to 
thrive  where  stocks  accustomed  to  luxuries  would  fail, 
thus  supplanting  them;  there  would  be  more  leisure 
and  energy  for  developing  mind^  which  would  increase 


86  MARRIAGE    AND    RACE    DEATH 

the  advantage  over  competitors,  while  an  intelligently 
simple  life  would  fast  mend  vitality  and  store  up  new 
supplies  of  higher  creative  vigor;  at  the  same  time  the 
chief  cause  of  animosity  among  individuals  would  pass, 
which  is  inequality  of  material  goods,  and  since  it  is 
this  that  instigates  men  to  squander  their  lives  tearing- 
down  and  defeating  each  other's  efforts  instead  of  help- 
ing each  other  as  brainy  creatures  would,  the  result  of 
the  change  to  equality  would  be  an  incalculable  access 
of  strength  to  its  accomplishes,  and  would  secure  their 
survival  over  rivals  governed  by  our  maiming  caste 
system  of  inequality,  where  each  is  everyone's  foe,  de- 
veloping perforce  into  cunning  tricky  human  reptiles- 
lawyers,  statesmen,  merchants,  manufacturers,  financiers 
—the  higher  cells  and  fibres  of  mind  dead. 

I  am  saying  that  peoples  but  little  brainier  than  the 
senile  civilized  will  seize  on  these  two  salient  concep- 
tions, that  when  they  do  the  civilized  will  have  no  chance 
with  them  in  the  battle  for  race  existence,  that  civilized 
breeds  will  either  die  or  sink  in  impotence,  while  the 
new  races  will  carry  forward  the  torch  of  life. 

Could  the  Jews  shake  off  the  dirt  of  their  traditions, 
they  might  rear  a  most  illustrious  destiny  for  their  race 
by  planting  this  higher  system  of  life  in  themselves,  an 
indescribably  grander  thing  than  erecting  another  com- 
monplace greedy  nation  in  Zion,  where  as  in  old  Israel 
and  new  Culturedom  the  strong,  cunning,  religious  ras- 
cals will  bask  on  the  honest  good.  To  consummate  this 
idea  the  successful  Jews  must  discard  all  luxury,  re- 
forming their  lives  to  intelligent,  healthy  simplicity,  and 
must  give  all  their  surplus  wealth  to  imbuing  their  race 
with  a  culture  loftier  than  civilization  or  Christian- 


AMERICAN     RACE     REVERSION  87 

ity,  and  to  equalizing  means  for  a  rapid  breeding  of 
their  stock.  I  am  glad  the  Jews  never  succumbed  to 
Christianity,  and  I  wish  we  could  desist  from  corrupt- 
ing the  Chinese  and  lower  races  with  it  and  leave  them 
unweighted  to  rise  directly  into  super-civilization.  Thus 
from  the  Jews  a  type  high  above  the  now7  dominant 
peoples  would  emerge,  which  would  leaven  all  the  sus- 
ceptible, and  whose  higher  qualities  and  overpassing 
justice  would  gradually  give  them  possession  of  the 
earth  where  races  had  crystallized  to  death  in  civilization. 
It  is  perhaps  better  for  the  human  race  that  this 
cannot  happen,  because  the  wealthy  Jews  of  the  w^orld 
are  as  evil  and  soul  blighted  a  set  as  the  rich  Christians. 
Like  Christians,  Judea  is  split  by  a  horizontal  plane 
into  property  thieves  and  employers  above,  with  the  in- 
stincts of  wolves,  and  a  proletariat  below  with  the  state 
and  nature  of  slaves.  The  Jewish  wealth-caste  stands 
in  with  Power  and  Tyranny  throughout  the  planet, 
crushing  the  poor  of  their  own  blood,  and  trembling  lest 
these  shall  rise  and  take  their  own.  The  London  Globe 
notes  that  in  Russia  "the  Jewish  working  classes  have 
joined  with  their  fellows  in  the  resistance  to  authority, 
but  they  have  been  checked  by  the  Jews  of  the  bourgeoi- 
sie, who  are  influenced  more  by  a  dread  of  a  class  rising 
than  by  affection  for  Czarism."  Fearing  that  the  lower 
class  Jews  may  get  their  economic  rights  if  there  is 
revolution,  the  rich  ones  seem  to  prefer  the  continuance 
of  the  infamous  Czaro-Bureaucratic  regime,  and  hence 
"the  leaders  of  the  race  have  alwrays  preferred  to  get 
the  best  terms  possible  from  the  Czar's  Government 
rather  than  to  enter  on  the  dangerous  path  of  revolution. 
The  better  class  Jews  [meaning  the  best  thieves]  only 


88  MARRIAGE    AND  RACE  DEATH 

ask  for  toleration ;  and  on  that  account  they  are  opposed 
to  the  revolutionary  movement,  though  the  proletariat 
class  have  been  inclined  to  throw  in  their  lot  with  the 
Russian  workmen." 

In  Romny,  near  Kiev,  Russia,  the  Jews  foresaw  ap- 
proaching massacre.  The  working-class  Jews  being 
abjectly  poor,  had  no  money  to  buy  revolvers  for  self- 
protection  and  besought  contributions  of  their  rich 
coreligionists  to  arm  and  defend  all  Jews  from  slaughter. 
The  rich  Hebrews  replied,  No,  we  will  not  give  you 
money  to  arm  but  will  give  it  to  the  police  to  protect  us. 
The  result  is  described  in  the  following  letter  to  Sonia 
Weinstein,  now  in  this  country,  written  by  her  sister 
in  Romny : 
"My  dear  Sister : 

"The  robbers  have  not  come,  for  a  wonder,  to  our 
house,  so  we  are  alive.  But  to  look  on  what  goes  on 
about  us  I  have  not  the  strength.  In  the  two  college 
buildings  are  more  than  2,000  people  hungry  and  quite 
naked.  Their  clothes  were  torn  off.  The  city  w^as  burned 
in  six  places.  But  earlier  they  killed  thousands  and 
tore  the  clothes  off  many  more.  On  all  sides  one  hears 
groans  and  cries.  My  God,  how  will  it  all  end?  Are 
there  no  human  hearts  in  other  countries  which  will 
answer  to  this  suffering?  Can  you  perhaps  do  something 
for  the  naked  and  hungry  children,  old  men  and  women? 
With  me  in  the  house  dwell  so  many  men  that  I  have 
no  longer  any  place  for  myself.  I  am  so  physically  and 
morally  prostrated  that  I  can  no  longer  hold  my  pen."* 


*  Written  Nov.  15,  '05.  The  writer  is  an  able  woman,  the  first  of 
her  sex  to  manage  an  extensive  insurance  in  that  district,  which  she 
conducted  after  her  husband's  death  to  support  her  family. 


AMERICAN     RACE     REVERSION  89 

The  gulf  between  the  rich  and  poor  Jews  is  here 
shown  to  be  impassable.  The  rich  Jew  is  thinking  of 
his  gold,  be  it  Jew  or  Gentile  that  makes  it  for  him.  The 
poor  Jew  is  a  Jew  dog  to  him  as  much  as  the  poor 
Gentile  is  a  Christian  dog  to  him.  Miss  Weinstein  de- 
clares it  wholly  untrue  that  in  Russia  there  is  common 
ground  or  common  feeling  between  the  rich  Jews  and 
the  poor  Jews.  The  rich  expect  to  buy  immunity  from 
the  police,  though  certain  that  their  poor  race-brothers 
will  be  massacred.  So  they  give  money  to  the  police, 
who  are  active  butchers  of  their  people.  And  the  poor 
Jews  are  learning  the  truth  and  are  raiding  the  resi- 
dences of  their  wealthy  coreligionists.  In  December  they 
invaded  the  houses  and  flats  of  rich  Warsaw  Jews,  de- 
manding large  sums  at  the  point  of  revolvers,  and  if 
refused  taking  jewels  and  money  and  destroying  the 
furniture,  so  that  many  of  the  capitalist  Hebrews 
abandoned  the  city. 

These  facts  should  have  great  consequences.  The 
Jewish  rich  should  lose  their  primacy  in  their  race,  being 
shown  like  Christian  robbers  to  care  more  for  ducats 
than  race  or  man;  they  twist  their  wealth  out  of  their 
own  poor,  and  rather  sustain  the  worst  tyranny  on  earth 
than  overthrow  it  and  risk  the  coming  of  equality  and 
justice.  The  Jewish  proletariat  should  cast  these  per- 
fidious aristocrats  overboard  and  amalgamate  spiritually 
with  the  higher  stock  of  the  Gentiles,  who  are  also  about 
to  put  away  their  aristocrats.  By  union  of  the  best 
of  Jew  and  Gentile — the  common  real  men  and  women 
with  ideas  and  ideals — race  types  above  present  Jew  or 
Gentile  will  be  created  and  Christian  and  Jew  aristocrats 
extinguished. 


90  MARRIAGE    AND    RACE    DEATH 

However  this  particular  mixture  may  fare,  in  the 
United  States  a  new  race  is  being  compounded  by  the 
fusion  of  the  immigrant  elements  of  old-wrorld  peoples, 
which  with  its  transcendent  implications  we  must  now 
consider. 


CHAPTER  XI. 

THE  AMERICAN  GREED  BREED  AND  STERILITY. 

If  the  study  thus  far  followed  is  sound,  marriage  as 
it  is  to  be  will  be  determined  by  the  principles  able  to 
cause  the  coming  types  to  survive  over  the  senile  civilzed 
races  now  occupying  the  front  of  the  world's  stage.  It  is 
necessary  then  to  unfold  these  principles  with  some  care, 
and  they  will  be  seen  best  by  dissecting  the  great  social 
and  race  movements  progressing  before  us. 

We  are  now  to  study  the  relation  of  the  race  making 
or  undermining  forces  to  the  United  States.  It  w^as 
shown  that  abroad  the  self-sterilization  of  nations  is  a 
stupendous  popular  revolt  and  revolution.  This  depopu- 
lation is  happening  here,  but  it  is  concealed  by  unheard 
of  immigration.  We  must  ask,  How  do  immigration 
and  other  peculiarly  American  facts  affect  race-dying, 
race-building,  and  revolution  in  this  country?  The  revo- 
lution elsewhere  progressing  through  race  death  may 
here  be  accomplished  by  race  substitution:  will  it  be? 
This  is  the  next  problem  to  undertake. 

To  us,  altogether  the  most  important  race  movement 
is  the  dying  out  of  the  old  American  type  and  the 
integration  of  a  fresh  breed.  Our  reliance  on  immigra- 
tion to  make  good  the  sterility  of  the  native  stock  and 
increase  the  population  indicates  a  yearly  larger  for- 

91 


92  MARRIAGE    AND    RACE    DEATH 

eign  mixture  in  the  inhabitants  and  an  equal  decline  of 
the  native  element:  annually  the  number  or  quantity 
of  the  American  breed  contracts,  yielding  its  place  to 
the  insurgent  floods.  These  immigrants  are  of  every 
European  family,  and  but  for  artificial  bars  would 
swarm  with  Orientals.  Arriving  here  they  soon  begin 
intermarriage,  or  the  intercrossing  of  breeds,  from 
which  the  thoroughly  new  type  is  to  spring.  The  old 
American  stock  will  be  in  a  measure  taken  up  into  this 
coming  race;  but  it  icill  be  submerged  and  lost  in  the 
great  currents  of  life  from  abroad,  through  its  weaker 
stamina,  as  shown  in  progressive  sterility,  and  other 
characteristics  to  be  mentioned.  "Our  forefathers  pre- 
dicted that  in  1893  the  American  population  would  be 
100,000,000  from  natural  growrth,  not  considering  immi- 
gration. With  all  the  large  unforeseen  immigration  it 
was  only  63,000,000."  (Weston.)  The  annual  influx  is 
now  over  a  million,  who,  compared  with  the  native 
Americans,  are  exceedingly  prolific,  their  families  being 
three  or  more  times  as  large  as  the  latter's.  Nor  do  they, 
as  a  rulCj  wed  Americans,  language  and  diversity  of  cus- 
toms inhibiting  it,  wrhile  we  at  first  instinctively  regard 
them  as  lower  creatures.  So,  during  the  fertilest  period, 
the  first  two  generations  of  residence,  they  intermarry 
among  themselves  much  more  than  with  us,  making  the 
great  new  foreign  segment  of  the  population,  which 
swells  fastest  by  natural  fecundity,  nearly  free  from 
American  tincture. 

Thus,  through  the  immensity  of  immigration,  through 
the  great  fertility  of  these  hosts  for  at  least  two  genera- 
tions, and  from  the  ever  growing  sterility  of  the  native 
type,  the  American  strain  in  the  inhabitants  steadily 


OUR    GREED     BREED    AND    STERILITY  93 

thins,  and  of  the  composite  race  in  making  it  will  be  but 
one  slender  strand  among  the  many  to  compose  the 
whole.  This  amounts  to  practical  extinction  of  the  type 
that  hitherto  has  held  and  dominated  the  continent,  and 
we  at  once  see  it  to  be  a  phenomenon  of  most  prodigious 
import. 

What  stingingly  impresses  us  in  this  movement  is 
the  failure  of  the  American  breed.  It  is  losing  its 
heritage  in  this  hemisphere  as  the  Saxons  lost  their  Eng- 
land to  the  Normans,  but  far  more  fully,  yes,  and  shame- 
fully, since  the  Saxons  fought  and  were  not  extermi- 
nated, while  the  Americans  do  not  fight  and  are  being 
^/-exterminated.  The  decay  and  death  of  a  great  race 
is  happening  through  its  unworthiness,  its  dearth  of 
virtue.  The  sum  of  the  matter  is  that  the  old  American 
population  is  giving  its  continent  to  stronger  types  and 
lustier  man-stuffs,  from  untimely  advent  of  old  age  or 
some  eating  race-rot.  Were  the  malady  curable  or  pre- 
ventible  it  is  a  heavy  penalty  when  in  the  mighty  course 
of  things  this  earlier  race  pays  for  its  recreancy  with 
death :  for  the  huge  irruption  of  these  European  hordes, 
while  not  a  military  invasion  like  the  barbarian  swarms 
that  overswept,  broke  and  swallowed  the  Roman  Elnpire, 
is  nevertheless  a  vast  migration,  focusing  on  a  human 
species  effete  and  dying  of  inner  poison.  The  American 
disease  was  home-sown  and  self-invited.  The  old  breed 
deliberately  chose  paths  closed  by  the  laws  of  survival, 
so  that  it  is  going  to  its  grave  as  unerringly  as  if  invin- 
cible barbarians  were  descending  from  the  North  and 
driving  it  into  the  sea. 

That  a  new  race  is  mixing  here  and  wringing  the 
blood  of  the  old  race  out  to  evaporate  on  the  ground  is 


94  MARRIAGE    AND    RACE    DEATH 

evident  enough :  but  the  query  is,  will  this  new  race  sur- 
vive, will  it  be  any  better  than  the  dying  apostates? 
Rome  corrupted  the  incoming  barbarians  with  its  cul- 
ture, so  mastered,  conquered,  and  destroyed  the  vital 
barbarian  principle,  and  for  two  thousand  years  the 
world  has  been  a  sickly  Eome.  Will  the  same  act  be 
played  again?  Is  the  humanity  newly  compounding 
here  in  the  tracks  of  the  dying  to  take  the  mould  of  their 
death-culture  and  die  likewise  a  little  later?  It  hangs 
on  wrhether  the  new  race  repudiates  everything  the  old 
breed  loves.  We  can  put  a  mark  of  identity  on  this 
suiciding  breed  by  unveiling  one  of  its  paragons:  the 
breed  is  dying  because  it  is  at  heart  like  this  man : 

Frank  G.  Bigelow,  president  of  the  chief  Wisconsin 
bank,  brilliant  thief  of  over  $3,000,000,  part  of  it  from 
"widows  and  orphans"  who  trusted  him,  is  a  grand  pat- 
tern of  the  expiring  type.  He  personified  our  wasters, 
chasing  wealth  by  swindle  and  gambling,  and  dodging 
creative  work.  He  was  "a  former  president  of  the  Ameri- 
can Bankers'  Association,  the  courted  adviser  of  the 
Secretary  of  the  Treasury  of  the  United  States,  the  busi- 
ness associate  of  men  high  in  the  political  and  financial 
circles  of  the  nation — a  man,  in  short,  whose  name  until 
to-day  stood  as  a  synonym  for  ability,  sagacity  and  probi- 
ty in  the  banking  world."  He  had  a  "magnificent  home," 
his  family  was  "prominent  socially" — things  so  dear  to 
the  dying  Greed  Breed.  "Gordon  Bigelow,  his  son,  a 
young  man,  has  been  known  as  a  plunger  in  the  stock 
and  grain  markets  for  a  long  time,  and  rumor  said  that 
a  large  part  of  the  money  embezzled  by  the  banker  went 
to  meet  the  losses  entailed  by  his  son.  The  son  has  been 
known  as  a  'high  roller,'  and  several  months  ago  gossip 


OUR    GREED     BREED    AND     STERILITY  95 

was  busy  about  some  of  his  big  winnings,  one  successful 
coup  having  netted  him,  according  to  report,  some  f 8,- 
000,000."  "The  community  was  aghast  at  the  exposure 
that  came  this  noon."  [N.  Y.  Herald,  April,  '05.  ] 

It  was  naive  for  society  to  swoon  at  the  regular 
habits  of  the  Greed  Breed.  Mostly  all  the  dying  stock 
are  at  the  same  work,  and  the  succeeders  are  the  sun- 
gods  in  our  sky.  Out  Sun  Gods  and  our  Hog  Gods. 
Schwab,  Gates,  Frick,  Hill,  Rogers,  Armour,  Ryan, 
Gould,  Harriman,  Astor,  Vanderbilt,  Whitney,  Carnegie, 
Morgan,  Rockefeller — what  ecstatical  thrills  these  names 
send  dowrn  the  backs  of  the  whole  native  stock! — these 
gamblers,  swindlers,  defaulters,  who  embezzle  their  whole 
wealth  from  the  people  and  are  the  people's  ideal !  None 
so  revered,  they  epitomize  the  Greed  Religion  of  the 
old  breed  and  Bigelow  was  one  of  them.  Had  they  been 
chilvarous  and  known  the  honor  they  say  there  is  in 
thieves,  instead  of  biting  him  when  he  fell,  they  would 
have  pensioned  him  and  placed  a  gold  cross  of  the  Legion 
of  Thieves  on  him,  as  a  maimed  veteran  in  the  war  of 
chicane,  Professor  Emeritus  in  their  College  of  Fraud. 
But  they  dragged  him  to  jail  for  ten  years,  by  good  be- 
havior reducible  to  seven  and  a  half,  by  certain  pardon 
shrinkable  to  one  or  two.  I  shall  compare  this  tender 
sentence  with  the  convictions  of  the  poor  later  on. 

To  describe  the  old  stock  is  to  define  what  any  sur- 
viving stock  will  have  to  repudiate.  The  old  stock 
prostrates  itself  deepest  to  the  richest  and  meanest, 
glories  in  a  veneer  of  sham  culture  over  abysmal  selfish- 
ness, lives  for  coarse  and  stupid  show,  is  saturated  with 
venomed  avarice,  prates  religion  and  practises  hell.  It 
renegaded  to  ideals  and  propagates  falsity  in  rich  men's 


96  MARRIAGE    AND    RACE    DEATH 

universities,  from  which  we  get  scarce  a  defender  of  great 
ideas  but  a  profusion  of  lettery  sophists  and  lick-boots. 
Old-breed  Americans  have  become  dolls.  Behold  the  adult 
babes  fighting  in  the  stock  pit  and  breaking  each  other's 
hats,  not  to  create  wealth  but  to  steal  it!  Somewhere 
dirty  unhealthy  men  and  children  are  working  in  other 
pits  making  the  wealth  for  these  stockwhackers  to  steal : 
many  of  them  are  Americans  too,  the  Greed  Breed  Ameri- 
cans that  failed,  yet  guards  of  the  swindle  set  and  system. 
The  silk-hatted  effeminates  have  routed  them  to  the 
gutter,  where,  living  on  the  ooze,  they  elect  to  die  in 
shame.  They  make  up  the  big  poverty  rump  of  the  Ameri- 
can Greed  Breed.  This  is  the  nature  of  the  old  stock 
which  voluntarily,  with  cynic  sportiveness,  resigns  a 
world. 

Now  between  it  and  the  insurgent  hordes  there  is 
this  portentous  difference,  that  the  latter  are  outcasts 
and  know  it,  while  the  very  basest  of  the  old  breed,  the 
most  starved  and  mauled,  thinks  it  his  personal  profit 
to  keep  up  the  greed  system.  This  thought  carries  the 
outcasts  nine-tenths  of  the  way  toward  revolution.  More- 
over, these  immigrant  outcasts  come  here  to  learn  that 
they  are  defrauded.  Verdant  enough  to  believe  this 
country  the  haven  of  justice,  equality  and  liberty,  as  it 
boasts,  when  they  arrive  to  find  these  elementary  human 
rights  long  since  burned  by  the  orders  of  our  Hog  Kings, 
rights  of  which  men  like  them  have  been  robbed  for  a 
thousand  ages — as  it  is  written  on  their  brains  and  in 
their  eyes — the  shock  is  profound  and  produces  a  nature 
which  a  very  small  spark  will  detonate.  They  find  this 
land,  presumptively  unscarred  by  kings  and  hog  ridden 
bv  no  ancient  order  of  nobled  thieves,  the  ashes  of  Liberty, 


OUR     GREED     BREED     AND     STERILITY  97 

Equality  and  Fraternity,  and  a  Secretary  of  War  named 
Taft  saying  that  the  Declaration  of  Independence  was 
not  meant  seriously.  They  find  the  titled  bandits  they 
fled  from  nothing  like  so  bloodthirsty  as  the  money 
wolves  that  are  battening  here  on  the  flesh  of  the  men 
who  earn  the  bread  they  do  not  eat.  And  at  the  feet 
of  these  crowned  ruffians,  modern  Caesars,  the  degenerate 
Old  Breed  gibbering  tremulous  and  senile.  Instead  of 
Religion,  Eockefellerism,  and  the  corpse  of  every  citi- 
zen's honor  rotting  in  that  morgue,  Wall  Street.  Law, 
where  only  victor  thieves  count.  Ministers,  speeding 
with  gospel  autos,  wagons  and  tents  to  save  New  York 
souls,  the  saving  being,  if  they  are  rich  souls,  a  little 
more  of  their  plunder  given  in  charity  to  hoodwink  God ; 
if  poor  souls,  humble  gratitude  that  they  are  robbed  by 
the  rich  for  God's  sake;  and  if  slum  souls,  another 
spoonful  of  free  ice  water  in  summer.  A  sham  salva- 
tion, a  comic  opera  with  the  fires  of  hell  for  footlights 
and  the  city  clergymen  as  star  comedians,  all  repeat- 
ing in  chorus  the  Reverend  Cadman's  allocution,  "I  hold 
no  brief  against  money,  I  only  wish  we  had  more  of  it 
to  use  as  it  ought  to  be  used."  A  deeply  sad  show  with 
the  Hamlet  of  Salvation  a  Fagin. 

All  this  the  invading  millions  see,  with  a  collision  of 
hope  and  disappointment.  Like  old  Puritans  they  broke 
home  ties  and  followed  the  star  of  liberty  to  escape 
Caesars,  and  do  you  seriously  think  they  will  knuckle 
down  to  our  industrial  Caligulas  and  Neros?  I  think 
that  by  their  hand  commercial  royalty  will  fall.  Though 
starved  all  through  their  natures,  they  are  not  feminized 
by  luxury  and  pomp,  the  practice  of  physical  work  red- 
dens their  blood,  they  do  not  worship  the  ghost-idol  of 

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98  MARRIAGE    AJXD    RACE    DEATH 

the  dying  American  stock — a  mountebank  with  hand  out 
for  bribes,  cuirassed  in  commercial  tricks. 

We  have  a  false  theory  that  descendants  of  the  old 
Americans  are  superior  to  these  teeming  hordes  who 
look  so  raw  and  foolish  as  they  hive  at  Castle  Garden. 
But  the  virtue  brought  by  some  of  our  early  settlers  wore 
itself  out  and  their  children's  blood  turned  to  pap ;  they 
won  liberty  which  their  coward  children  have  made  over 
in  fee  simple  to  the  aggregation  of  rogues:  the  rawest 
barbarian  landing  on  the  Hudson  is  psychically  richer. 

Yet  tremendous  efforts  are  being  made  to  Ameri- 
canize, which  is  to  Greedicize,  these  comers.  It  consists 
in  budding  into  them  spurious  and  mean  little  wrants, 
to  gratify  which  they  will  abandon  all  noble  and  great 
wrants.  The  curse  of  the  working  class  is  that  if  they 
can  wear  glazed  collars  and  a  few  other  capitalist  in- 
signia they  think  the  goal  of  life  won.  Americans  live 
to  show  their  trumpery  possessions.  American  educa- 
tion is  a  system  for  teaching  all  to  ape  the  monkey  hab- 
its of  the  rich.  If  this  can  be  implanted  in  the  poor 
as  the  end  of  living,  the  lesser  monkeys  will  certainly 
not  heave  the  greater  monkeys  off  of  their  backs.  Mak- 
ing this  the  aim  of  life  for  immigrants  is  Americani- 
zation. The  loftiest  prize  held  out  to  the  poor  is  their 
spurious  chance  of  becoming  great  monkeys  and  riding 
on  their  poor  tribe's  back.  A  Christian  aim. 

If  the  barbarians  succumb  to  Americanization,  their 
race  wrill  die  of  self-sterilization  like  the  old  Greed 
Breed ;  if  they  are  triple  armed  with  higher  soul-matter 
to  resist  they  will  inherit  America.  If  they  would  sur- 
vive, they  must  adopt  revolutionary  principles.  They 
must  defy  the  choking  up  of  their  minds  with  small, 


OUR     GREED    BREED     AND     STERILITY  99 

mean  waiits  to  the  exclusion  of  the  great  revolutionary 
want  to  have  all  their  own;  they  must  defy  the  Ameri- 
canizing slum  teacher,  settlementeer,  and  school 
teacher,  \vho  without  knowing  it  and  for  slim  victual 
fares,  are  the  capitalists'  scarecrows  against  revolution. 
Honorable  office — scholarly  Pinkerton  guards  of  belly 
capitalists. 

The  newr  race  must  be  absolute  revolutionists.  Their 
iron  maxim  must  be  that  a  fellow  citizen  who  steals 
another's  property  or  labor  in  any  form  is  the  same 
kind  of  a  snake  as  any  foreign  prince  who  should  sail 
into  New  York  with  a  war  fleet,  shell  it,  seize  it,  and 
proclaim  it  his.  There  would  be  a  rising  of  men  in 
the  United  States  to  get  at  that  prince.  Yet  New  York 
shelters  an  aggregation  of  hog  princes  of  wealth  who 
have  done  just  that  to  every  person  in  this  country  with- 
out warships,  and  every  town  has  a  pack  of  co-partners 
of  these  pirates.  They  are  foreign  invaders  with  Ameri- 
can tags  on  to  mask  their  commercial  rape  of  all  United 
States  wrealth.  Any  race  to  survive  will  have  to  feel 
toward  these  home-hatched  buccaneers  as  toward  an 
alien  invading  thief  and  assassin.  Men  who  do  the  deeds 
of  infamous  enemies  are  infamous  enemies. 

I  am  not  writing  to  the  immediate  moment  and  can 
therefore  tell  the  truth.  The  newT  race  will  have  to  cure 
itself  of  the  disease  of  Christianity  or  it  too  will  die. 
No  Christian  can  be  a  full  man,  no  Christian  can  com- 
prehend what  a  full  man  is,  no  Christian  can  even  want 
to  be  a  full  man.  Three- fourths  of  him  is  made  up  of 
a  false  imagination  of  what  God  is.  That  three-fourths 
is  so  much  waste  space  in  his  being,  a  bladder  of  un- 
reality in  him  preventing  life  and  power  fibre  from 


100  MARRIAGE    AND    RACE    DEATH 

growing  in  there.  The  Christian  consciousness  sees  a 
false  world  and  makes  a  false  world.  Its  chief  product 
on  this  planet  is  the  belly  billionaire — and  he  is  its  prod- 
uct. The  foundation  stone  of  the  riches  system  and  of 
organized  modern  plunderers  is  the  Christian  relig- 
ion. Everywhere  the  vast  bulk  of  its  upholders  are 
either  thieves  or  defenders  of  thieves.  One  who  would 
cramp  his  intelligence  into  the  little  mould  of  Christi- 
anity is  like  him  who  would  crush  his  foot  in  an  iron  form 
half  its  size.  A  dead  thing  has  done  its  work,  and  if  the 
new  race  endeavors  to  carry  the  corpse  around  on  its  back 
it  will  get  the  disease  of  which  the  object  died.  Christi- 
anity has  already  killed  infinitely  many  in  body  and  soul, 
both  men  and  nations.  The  race  that  would  live  must 
drop  it. 

If  the  new  barbarian  breeds  have  not  nerve  for  these 
things  they  will  die.  Then  if  Western  civilization  con- 
tinues in  its  course  of  deified  rapine,  Oriental  races  may 
inherit  Europe  and  America  and  people  them  with  inhab- 
itants above  Christians  and  beasts. 


CHAPTER    XII. 

ONE    DESPOT    BRAIN    ATTRIBUTE. 

The  old  stock  elected  the  path  of  material  inequality. 
All  men  are  not  born  equal,  either  mentally,  morally  or 
physically,  but  they  are  all  born  with  the  right  of  ma- 
terial equality.  And  the  reason  for  this  is  that  equality 
insures  the  largest  application  of  power  to  race  growth. 
Now  material  wealth  is  one  of  the  fundamental  agents 
of  race  growth ;  it  may  be  used  intelligently  or  foolishly 
for  that  end ;  but  under  material  inequality  it  is  certain 
to  be  used  selfishly  and  stupidly. 

Suppose  a  certain  sum  is  to  be  divided  among  a  hun- 
dred men:  if  distributed  equally  many  of  the  hundred 
are  certain  to  expend  it  wisely,  for  their  intrinsic  good ; 
but  if  nearly  all  is  given  to  two  men,  and  the  small 
remnant  is  portioned  out  to  the  ninety-eight,  the  whole 
sum  is  as  good  as  wasted,  for  the  overloaded  two  will 
squander  their  part  while  the  rest  will  have  too  little 
to  derive  any  good  from  it. 

Yet  thus  is  human  society  organized.  Society  is 
responsible  for  the  location  of  its  wealth.  It  practically 
gathers  this  wealth  up  and  presents  the  bulk  of  it  to  a 
certain  handful  of  men  whom  it  selects,  and  the  lean 
remainder  of  the  wealth  it  allots  to  the  vast  remainder 
of  the  people.  It  does  this  by  selecting  one  attribute 


ITO  MAKUIAGE    AND    RACE    DEATH 

out  of  the  thousand  attributes  of  man  and  decreeing 
that  to  those  in  whom  this  attribute  is  most  marked  the 
nations  wealth  shall  be  given. 

Pause  a  moment  and  think  how  infinitely  dumb  it 
is  thus  to  elect  one  attribute  of  man  and  make  it  sov- 
ereign over  all.  A  prevailing  man  of  one  faculty  will 
be  created,  who  will  be  a  monster.  It  matters  not  what 
faculty  or  quality  is  chosen,  the  resultant  thing  will  be 
a  monster,  because  a  one-facultied  creature  cannot  be  a 
man.  The  intelligent  inter-relation  and  development  of 
a  multiplicity  of  attributes  is  what  constitutes  man. 
If  the  highest  premium  is  affixed  to  one  of  these  quali- 
ties a  process  of  selection  will  forthwith  begin  preserving 
those  in  whom  the  elected  faculty  is  strong,  weeding  out, 
subordinating  and  destroying  the  rest.  A  race  of  mon- 
sters follows. 

The  musical  faculty  might  be  chosen  as  that  to  be 
favored  exclusively,  entitling  its  possessors  to  be  given 
nearly  all  the  nation's  wealth.  At  once  we  should  see 
the  supreme  energy  of  the  people  turned  to  the  cultiva- 
tion of  the  musical  talent  to  the  neglect  of  every  other 
ability;  those  quite  devoid  of  musical  nature  would 
receive  the  least  or  perhaps  nothing,  and  would  waste 
and  die  out;  among  them  might  be  brilliant  scientists, 
poets,  philosophers,  painters,  inventors,  architects,  engi- 
neers, but  being  poor  in  musical  aptitude,  the  only  basis 
of  claim  to  wealth  or  means  to  live,  they  would  get 
nothing  and  be  forced  to  die.  Or  they  might  be  assigned 
menial  service  for  the  musicians,  such  as  making  their 
palaces  and  clothes,  cooking  their  food  and  driving  their 
coaches,  waiting  at  their  tables  and  cleaning  their  floors, 
attending  to  their  chambers  and  washing  their  pet  dogs, 


ONE     DESPOT     BRAIN     ATTRIBUTE  103 

but  for  the  very  meanest  pay,  since  none  of  these  labors 
would  involve  the  musical  power,  the  criterion  of  right 
to  wealth. 

Were  the  transition  made  suddenly,  giving  musi- 
cians general  possession,  we  should  have  illustrious 
scientists  and  philosophers,  mighty  artists  and 
industrial  geniuses,  scrubbing  musicians'  steps  and 
blacking  their  shoes,  dying  of  starvation  under  our 
wharves  and  committing  suicide  in  our  parks.  Not  only 
then  would  the  higher  faculties  of  persons  with  other 
species  of  brains  than  the  musical  be  undeveloped  and 
lost,  the  faculty  of  science,  poetry  and  invention,  but 
their  income  would  be  so  cramped  that  if  so  reckless 
as  to  beget  they  would  be  happy  if  barely  able  to  feed 
their  begotten,  thinking  nothing  of  their  intelligent  edu- 
cation and  development.  Thus  the  descendants  of  all 
those  gifted  with  any  talent  but  music  would  shrivel 
up  and  vanish  if  they  did  not  succeed  in  evolving  a 
musical  knack,  or  would  degenerate  into  facultyless  non- 
entity to  become  the  musicians'  menials.  We  should 
have  a  nation  of  a  general  mass  of  fools  with  no  faculty ; 
a  few  musicians  of  surpassing  brilliance,  fools  in  all 
other  ways;  and  some  between  with  fair  musical  gifts, 
also  otherwise  fools.  Each  life  and  each  generation 
would  be  a  raging  struggle  to  heighten  this  single  fac- 
ulty, whence  all  other  parts  and  powers  of  the  brain 
would  shrink  from  disuse,  the  varied  gifts  of  men  would 
fail,  and  the  final  product  would  be  a  race  of  musical 
idiots. 

The  mathematical  faculty  might  be  chosen  instead  of 
music,  and  then  we  should  create  a  race  of  highly  mathe- 
matical idiots.  The  mathematicians  being  sovereigns  of 


104  MARRIAGE    AND    RACK    DEATH 

the  nation's  wealth,  every  project  for  general  improve- 
ment requiring  expenditure  would  have  to  be  submitted 
to  them,  and  they  would  decide  by  its  bearing  on  their 
particular  mathematical  whims.  Having  but  one  faculty 
and  lacking  in  the  rest  of  their  minds,  they  would  of 
course  veto  what  did  not  promote  mathematical  theorems 
or  minister  to  their  own  luxury ;  for  being  owners  of  the 
wealth  it  would  be  their  right  to  waste  it  at  their  pleas- 
ure; whence  everything  but  mathematics  and  the  mag- 
nificence of  the  mathematicians  would  starve.  They 
would  soar  into  the  poetic  realms  of  mathematical  meta- 
physics, constructing  infinite  dreams  of  non-existent 
universes  on  mathematical  hypotheses  and  deducing  all 
the  qualities  of  the  spheres  and  their  unliving  inhabitants 
from  the  imaginary  principles,  while  actually  existing 
mankind  at  their  elbows  would  be  drying  up  and  dying 
out  of  want.  If  any  persons  survived  with  mentality  to 
know  that  these  mathematicians  were  idiots  and  crim- 
inals, murdering  the  human  race,  and  had  the  hardihood 
to  upbraid  them  for  their  destruction  of  wealth  and  con- 
tempt of  life,  the  mathematicians  would  have  them  put 
to  death  as  brawlers  defying  the  established  mathematical 
order,  or  ironed  and  imprisoned,  or  quietly  starved  by 
branding  them  in  such  a  way  that  none  would  give  them 
hire  for  even  slave's  work. 

With  the  brains  of  their  fellow  creatures  stagnating 
and  decaying  from  deprival  of  sustenance  to  live  and 
develop,  these  mathematicians  would  be  squandering  all 
the  material  nutriment  of  society  in  mathematical  de- 
bauches, constantly  raising  human  idiocy  to  a  higher 
power. 


ONE     DESPOT     BRAIN     ATTRIBUTE  105 

Suppose,  again,  the  faculty  of  Hate  had  been  that 
selected  to  give  title  to  the  absorption  of  wealth:  we 
should  then  have  evolved  a  race  with  hate  as  the  supreme 
capacity  and  the  world  would  be  a  chamber  of  hell.  And 
we  have  very  nearly  done  that,  for  we  have  chosen  the 
faculty  nearest  to  hate. 

We  discern  that  if  society  attaches  the  ownership  of 
wealth  to  any  faculty  mainly  or  exclusively,  it  installs  a 
system  of  natural  selection  causing  those  endowed  with 
that  forte  to  thrive  and  survive,  while  others  sink  in  the 
scale  and  shrivel  or  perish ;  any  other  quality  exists  only 
by  the  sufferance  of  this  one,  tolerated  but  not  developed, 
and  a  race  is  formed  whereof  the  massed  majority  are 
fools  in  every  respect  through  intellectual  starvation 
while  the  few  are  even  more  full-flowered  idiots  save  in 
their  single  attribute,  which,  itself  being  out  of  harmony 
with  everything  else,  is  a  secondary  idiocy.  These  terms 
are  of  course  employed  without  opprobrium  to  express 
scientifically  a  state.  The  election  of  any  faculty  as  the 
depository  of  social  wealth  produces  a  race  of  fools  in  all 
other  points,  for  the  reason  that  ivealth  is  the  material  of 
mental  nutriment  and  that  all  of  it  is  absorbed  in  this 
one  faculty,  causing  its  hypertrophy,  the  atrophy  of  the 
rest,  and  a  resultant  society  of  fools — just  as  if  all  parts 
but  one  of  their  higher  brains  had  been  extirpated 
mechanically. 

In  the  abstract  no  one  would  believe  that  any  branch 
of  mankind  could  act  so  fearfully  against  intelligence  as 
to  erect  any  one  ability  into  the  sovereign  divinity  of  all 
others  and  supreme  omnipotent  despot  over  all  its  vital 
concerns :  yet  every  civilized  race  has  done  so,  though 
none  as  absolutely  as  our  own. 


106  MARRIAGE     AND     RACfi 

The  American  Commonwealth  singled  out  avarice  for 
especial  and  sovereign  culture.  It  made  this  faculty  the 
Psychological  God  of  all  its  mind  powers,  by  agreeing 
that  the  wealth  of  society  should  pass  to  the  characters 
best  furnished  with  this  capacity.  The  most  avaricious 
men  should  be  the  kings  and  keepers  of  American  race 
nutrition.  They  should  be  those  with  fewest  and  leanest 
higher  qualities,  who  would  bend  such  talents  as  they  had 
only  to  clutching  wealth.  Society  decreed  that  these  men 
should  be  given  society's  riches,  and  should  be  royal  dic- 
tators of  their  uses.  Every  human  faculty  was  therein 
degraded  and  made  a  beggar  to  this,  and  the  grab-type 
of  man  was  raised  into  autocrat  above  all  the  fair  and 
varied  remainder  of  human  potencies  and  individuals. 
It  was  said  to  the  Supreme  Grabber,  Make  avarice  your 
eminent  law,  focus  and  absorb  all  your  mentality  in  get- 
ting, and  what  you  get  shall  be  yours  and  you  shall  be 
unbridled  in  its  disposition. 

This,  as  in  music  and  mathematics,  was  but  construct- 
ing a  system  of  natural  selection  to  weed  out  all  qualities 
but  avarice,  to  idiotize  the  race  in  all  but  the  workings 
of  avarice,  and  to  place  the  idiots  wrho  had  avarice  most 
evolved  at  the  helm  of  human  destiny.  The  old  American 
breed  did  this  thing.  The  scorching  disgrace  of  it  is  that 
it  knew  better,  and  for  its  act  it  is  paying  with  race 
extinction. 

While  I  am  not  using  the  scientific  term  idiot  oppro- 
briously,  neither  is  it  figurative  or  poetical.  The  people 
completely  lost  their  power  of  sane  judgment  of  anything, 
deciding  every  subject  by  its  bearing  on  riches;  like  a 
man  with  paresis  the  worthless  seemed  of  exalted  worth 
and  vice  versa ;  the  constituents  of  sane  growth  and  hap- 


ONE     DESPOT     BRAIN     ATTRIBUTE  107 

piness  they  despised  and  ejected,  seizing  on  the  defiling 
and  destroying  as  the  gospel  of  their  ways.  This  is  the 
literal  qualification  of  structural  fools,  that  is  of  men 
with  brains  malformed  and  running  crazily.  The 
American  brain,  dis-attuned  to  the  real,  broke,  and  then 
being  no  longer  capable  of  true  adjustments  the  race 
began  to  totter  and  collapse  because  its  head  misled  it. 
Such  is  the  deeper  philosophy  of  American  extinction. 

Let  us  carefully  trace  our  thought.  Was  it  not  the 
work  of  a  race  brain  of  fatally  false  structure  to  give  the 
lord-custodianship  of  wealth  to  any  single  faculty?  But 
to  select  the  most  viperish  attribute,  avarice,  to  force 
upon  it  the  highest  prizes,  to  elevate  those  super-saturated 
with  it  into  Earth  Gods,  holy  divine  Providences  of  men, 
ruling  only  to  ruin  them — does  this  not  reveal  race-brain 
defects  unthinkable? 

Why  should  the  acquisitive  faculty  be  subsidized  with 
the  powers  and  privileges  which  men  have  usually  ac- 
corded only  to  an  Almighty?  Why  give  vast  brutal 
Seizers  the  power  of  shaping  mankind?  of  electing  the 
type  that  may  live  and  prosper,  and  marking  others  for 
ignominy  and  extermination?  of  being  thus  the  high 
absolute  Creator  of  the  species  sanctioned  to  survive?  of 
shearing  men  of  glorious  and  diversified  attributes  by 
forbidding  their  growth,  absorbing  all  vitality  into  the 
evolution  of  avarice,  and  reducing  men  to  the  ugliness  of 
uniform  Lust  and  Greed? 

These  dehumanized  Seizers  are  given  control  of  the 
Human  Womb,  the  avenue  from  the  unknown  by  which 
life  enters,  for  they  decide  what  kind  of  children  may 
come.  They  decree  that  it  shall  be  a  low  kind,  to  suit 
their  spirit  deformity — the  higher  kind  they  strangle 


108  MARRIAGE    AND    RACE    DEATH 

before  birth  by  degrading  the  character  of  all  possible 
parents.  Those  who  might  bring  a  high  man-type  in 
they  effectively  destroy.  So  they  stand  at  the  threshold, 
proprietors  of  the  door  by  which  mankind  enters,  scan- 
ning the  issue,  vetoing  the  best,  and  passing  in  only  those 
fashioned  after  their  own  deformities.  Here  is  the  inner- 
most cause  of  the  degradation  of  the  human  race. 

The  deformed  human  products  become  the  justifiers 
of  the  agents  that  deform  them.  That  brain  feebleness 
which  occasioned  these  prodigious  blunders  produced 
simultaneously  a  swarming  school  of  expositors  and  de- 
fenders of  the  blunder  in  the  form  of  thinkers,  whose 
mission  is  to  repel  attacks  upon  avarice  as  the  rightful 
Captain  of  earthly  Life. 

The  blunder  was  one  that  any  child  with  a  weZZ-made 
brain  would  have  discerned:  and  the  moral  fall  of  the 
American  breed  is  here :  that  in  the  earlier  days,  before 
natural  selection  had  weeded  away  the  good  minds  and 
established  the  cripple-brained  as  deities,  it  icas  seen  that 
the  right  of  avarice  to  wealth  and  godship  over  man  was 
an  infernal  lying  principle. 


CHAPTER  XIII. 

WEALTH  AS  VITAL  EVOLUTION  NUTRIMENT. 

Wealth  is  something  entirely  distinct  from  the  faculty 
of  getting  wealth,  its  uses  and  purpose  in  the  world  sys- 
tem are  of  another  sphere  than  its  acquisition:  and  there- 
fore the  faculty  of  getting  wealth  does  not  carry  with  it 
the  right  to  possess  wealth. 

The  nature  of  wealth  is  this:  It  is  the  substance  or 
vital  principle  of  human  development.  It  is  to  the  race 
body  what  food  is  to  the  human  body :  it  is  the  nutriment 
of  race  evolution.  The  human  body  is  organized  so  that 
in  the  main,  and  in  health,  food  taken  into  it  goes  where 
it  should:  but  here  the  astonishing  defects  of  the  race- 
body  appear,  for  food  taken  into  it,  the  wealth  to  nourish 
it,  does  not  go  where  it  should.  The  race  brain  has  not 
yet  acquired  intelligence  and  power  of  co-ordination  to 
send  race  food  where  it  should.  Race  pirates,  multimil- 
lionaires, seize  the  race  nutriment,  convey  it  to  their 
luxurious  dens,  fortify  themselves  and  consume  it;  they 
are  the  pus  of  society,  causing  its  death.  While  they 
steal  the  race  nourishment  and  corrupt  themselves,  society 
starves  and  falls  under  the  maladies  of  starvation.  It  is 
just  as  if  certain  cells  in  the  physical  body  should  malig- 
nantly impound  and  devour  the  food  we  eat  for  the  whole 
system,  bringing  blight  and  death  on  the  system  harbor- 
ing such  cells. 

109 


HO  MARRIAGE    AND    RACE    DEATH 

But  the  cells  might  say,  "We  have  a  great  acquisitive 
faculty,  which  entitles  us  to  all  the  system's  food  we  can 
get."  When  certain  human  cells  in  the  race-system, 
milliardaires,  offer  that  statement  it  prevails,  and  the 
race  replies,  "It  is  your  right  to  take  our  food  if  you  have 
a  great  acquisitive  faculty,  and  it  is  our  duty  to  yield  and 
die  because  the  food  is  gone." 

There  is  a  closer  analogy.  These  rebel  cells  in  the 
race-economy  in  reality  detach  themselves  from  society, 
becoming  independent  alien  organisms,  feeding  upon  it 
as  their  pasture:  their  nearest  kin  is  the  tapewrorm — 
they  are  the  tapeworm  of  the  social  body.  This  is  no 
fanciful  likeness  but  an  exact  scientific  statement  of  the 
fact.  For  example,  a  certain  quantity  of  wealth  (social 
nutriment)  is  applied  to  education  and  the  race  develops; 
after  a  time  the  milliardaires  absorb  the  wealth  and  con- 
sume it  themselves:  the  funds  for  education  shrink, 
education  slumps,  and  race  development  stops.  The 
millionaires  have  coiled  themselves  in  the  alimentary 
tract  of  the  people,  taken  and  consumed  the  food  intended 
for  their  feeding,  and  brought  on  race  emaciation  and 
exhaustion.  Tapeworms  do  this  in  human  intestines. 
As  social  tapeworms  the  millionaires  have  destroyed  race 
vitality. 

In  New  York  City  there  were  in  1904  over  80,000  part- 
time  pupils  in  the  public  schools,  from  want  of  seats;  this 
year  over  76,000,  who  could  only  get  a  partial  day's 
instruction* :  yet  the  rich  of  New  York  burn  vast  sums 
in  incendiary  splendor.  When  the  new  School  of  Tech- 
nology opened  in  Pittsburgf  7,000  had  applied.  They 

*Supt.  Maxwell's  Report,  Oct.  26,  '05. 
**Oct.  16,  '05. 


WEALTH     AS     NUTRIMENT     OF     EVOLUTION  111 

first  weeded  out  over  5,000  of  these ;  then  made  a  second 
weeding  down  to  604 ;  then  a  third  weeding  down  to  120 
and  took  them,  having  as  yet  no  more  room.  This  shows 
how  the  tapeworm  rich  in  the  American  stomach  eat 
wealth  that  should  go  into  human  education  to  upbuild 
man. 

Now  the  physical  tapeworm  is  possessed  of  a  huge 
acquisitive  faculty  and,  according  to  the  argument  de- 
fending acquisition,  it  has  a  right  to  all  it  can  get.  But 
food  is  eaten  to  nourish  the  man,  that  is  its  nature,  and 
the  power  of  some  bowel  parasite  or  abnormal  cells  to 
steal  it  and  starve  the  man  is  not  recognized  morally  or 
physically:  the  tapeworm  is  slaughtered,  and  the  pirat- 
ical cells  cured  or  cut.  They  are,  if  incurable,  cut  out 
remorselessly.  No  maudlin  cell  in  the  body  cries,  "Spare 
those  cancer  cells,  it  is  cruel  to  them  to  cut  them  out!" 
as  maudlin  human  gentlemen  cells  in  broadcloth  cry, 
"Spare  the  millionaire  cancer  cells,  it  is  unjust  to  cut 
them  out !" 

In  a  word,  the  power  to  get  does  not  confer  the  right 
to  get  or  possess.  And  seeing  this  of  body  worms  it  is 
perfectly  easy  to  see  it  of  social  worms,  the  rich,  who  take 
from  social  cells  (human  individuals)  wealth  that  their 
life,  growth  and  evolution  depend  on.  Of  wealth,  as  of 
bodily  food,  The  Power  to  Get  does  not  confer  the  Right 
to  Get  or  Possess.  A  higher  law  comes  in  to  settle  that : 
the  good  of  men  as  cells  of  Mankind.  For  no  cell  of  a 
nation  or  race  is  well*  if  that  race  has  a  cancer  in  it — 
abnormal  cell  individuals  eating  up  normal  cell 
individuals. 

This  law  is  one  of  the  highest  for  modern  man  to 
learn.  The  Power  to  Get  Wealth  does  not  confer  the 


112  MARRIAGE    AND    RACE    DEATH 

Kight  to  Get  or  Possess  it.  If  tapeworms  did  no  harm 
people  might  not  object  to  being  full  of  them,  and  if  rich 
social  tapeworms  were  innocuous  society  might  not  resent 
being  stuffed  with  them;  but  they  both  eat  nutriment 
demanded  for  the  general  organic  life,  and  so  kill  organic 
strength,  which  means  that  every  cell  and  individual  is 
weaker  and  unhappier  through  their  death  work.  Wealth 
like  food  exists  for  general  nutrition,  not  to  gratify  the 
instinct  and  avarice  of  acquisition ;  and  as  the  function  of 
wealth  is  general  nutrition,  all  the  laws  of  wealth  flow 
from  this  function. 

Hitherto  the  laws  of  wealth  have  been  deduced  from 
the  standpoint  of  the  social  tapeworm  and  written  to 
demonstrate  that  mankind  exists  for  that  parasite.  It 
is  the  analogue  of  a  physiology  proving  that  the  human 
body  has  been  developed  to  feed  the  tapeworm  within  it, 
or  that  man  exists  for  the  louse  which  quarters  on  him. 
Such  a  physiology  would  excite  mirth,  but  how  would  it 
be  if  the  tapeworms  were  the  maintainers  of  the  writers 
of  physiology — is  it  not  probable  that  physiology  would 
demonstrate :  that  man's  duty  is  to  cultivate  these  worms 
within  him?  that  man  depends  on  tapeworms  for  exist- 
ence? that  the  most  perfect  man  is  he  who  contains  most 
of  them?  and  that  the  end  and  purpose  of  the  human  race 
are  tapeworms  and  their  happiness?  And  theologians, 
would  not  they,  also  in  the  service  of  tapeworms,  preach 
that  people  whose  vitals  nourish  the  greatest  number  of 
these  animals  uncomplainingly  are  the  most  certain  and 
deserving  of  heaven? 

Political  economy  teaches  this  doctrine  on  a  larger 
scale,  and  man  listens  to  the  oracle  without  thunders  of 
mirth  or  jeers.  Political  economy  is  the  Science  of  the 


WEALTH     AS     NUTRIMENT     OF     EVOLUTION  113 

Social  Tapeworm;  it  is  the  Science  of  Parasite  Eights, 
and  it  writes  laws  for  preserving  the  tapeworm.  It 
proves  that  society  depends  upon  this  inner  devourer  to 
live,  that  the  tapeworm  (rich)  furnishes  society  the 
strength  (capital)  with  which  to  work  and  produce  more 
food  (wealth)  for  the  tapeworm  (rich)  to  eat;  that  it  is 
good  for  society  to  feed  its  tapeworms ;  it  shows  that  the 
tapeworm  is  the  flower  of  humanity,  that  the  ability  of 
humanity  is  concentrated  in  the  tapeworm  because  it  has 
the  power  to  extract  nutriment  (wealth)  from  the 
stomach  of  society,  that  because  it  can  do  this  God  or 
Nature  intended  it  to  do  it,  and  that  removal  of  the  tape- 
worm would  be  a  crime  against  the  Laws  of  Nature,  that 
if  man  rebelled  against  tapeworms  he  would  be  tamper- 
ing with  the  Nature  of  Things.  And  theologians  corrob- 
orate this  Tapeworm  Science  by  stating  on  authority 
from  the  Maker  of  men  and  tapeworms  that  men  who  are 
most  loyal  and  loving  to  tapeworms  will  have  the  costliest 
mansions  above. 

As  clerical  retainers  of  the  Tapeworms,  living  by  their 
bounty,  economists  and  preachers  have  evolved  the 
Tapeworm  Science,  occupying  the  position  of  the  buffoon 
held  in  the  Italian  Courts  of  the  Renaissance.  Pope 
Leo  X  was  a  great  cultivator  of  this  sort.  "This  prince, 
whose  taste  for  the  most  refined  intellectual  pleasures 
was  insatiable,  endured  and  desired  at  his  table  a  number 
of  witty  buffoons  and  jack-puddings,  among  them  two 
monks  and  a  cripple;  at  public  feasts  he  treated  them 
will  deliberate  scorn  as  parasites,  setting  before  them 
monkeys  and  crows  in  place  of  savory  meats."*  If 
preacher  and  economist  had  not  valet  minds  they  would 


*Burckhardt;  The  Renaissance  in  Italy,  p.  157t 


114  MARRIAGE    AND    RACE    DEATH 

see  that  they  are  their  rich  masters'  buffoons,  generally 
despised  and  spat  upon,  but  on  rare  occasions  taken  up 
to  their  lords'  tables  to  play  the  clown  and  exhibit  their 
piety  and  learning  for  the  guests'  amusement.  They  are 
scorned  as  parasites,  which  every  one  knows  they  are, 
and  the  ordinary  treatment  which  they  receive  from  the 
rich  class  is  a  diet  of  monkeys  and  crows;  but  having 
valet  minds  they  cannot  reason  this  out,  and  are  bewilder- 
ingly  happy,  honored  and  dazzled  when  the  rare  summons 
comes  to  crawl  up  to  the  millionaire's  table  and  be  his 
good  jack-pudding. 

TAPEWORM  PHILOSOPHY. 

A  scientific  explanation  why  men  in  general  have 
made  a  religion  of  Tapeworm  Philosophy  and  willingly 
given  themselves  to  be  devoured  parasitically,  is  de- 
manded of  us.  One  cause  is  the  power  of  simple  lying. 
The  immense  potency  of  sheer  lying  is  little  compre- 
hended. The  firm  assertion  of  a  known  lie  in  nine  cases 
out  of  ten  goes  as  far  as  the  truth.  While  the  power 
of  truth  is  much  sung  of,  the  power  of  lying  is  greater. 
The  fact  that  an  individual  asserts,  carries  the  force  of 
truth  with  it  irrespective  of  what  he  asserts.  Now  one 
of  the  main  stays  of  the  rich,  almost  the  corner  stone 
of  them,  is  brazen  blushless  Lying.  They  lie  as  Mc- 
Curdy  of  the  Mutual  Life  lied  in  his  public  examination. 
He  capped  his  lying  with  perjury  because  he  was  sworn, 
and  many  other  rich  parasite  (tapeworm)  witnesses  did 
likewise.  Many  newspapers,  which  are  most  of  them 
only  rich  men's  megaphones,  lie  day  after  day  and  year 
after  year,  repeating  in  print  the  same  known  lies:  the 
repeaters  know  they  are  lies,  the  readers  know  they  are 


TAPEWORM     PHILOSOPHY  115 

lies,  the  public  knows  they  are  lies,  but  the  brassy  dec- 
laration of  them  has  a  power  over  the  minds  and  wills 
of  people,  forcing  them  to  act  as  if  they  believed  the  lies. 

To  illustrate :  John  Wanamaker,  before  the  National 
Negro  Business  League  last  summer  said,  "You  are  be- 
ginning at  the  best  time  America  ever  had."  On  almost 
the  same  day  in  the  same  New  York  the  following  hap- 
pened : 

"Max  Limberg,  a  butcher  of  621  West  Fifty-first 
Street,  stole  a  quarter  of  beef  from  a  wagon.  The  booty 
was  so  heavy  that  he  could  not  stagger  away  fast  enough 
to  escape  detection,  and  he  was  locked  up.  In  the  Police 
Court  he  pleaded  guilty.  It  came  out  there  that  he  had 
failed  in  business  and  could  get  no  employment. 

"Yesterday  Limberg  was  before  Judge  McMahon  in 
General  Sessions  to  be  sentenced.  The  charge  was  grand 
larceny.  Beside  him  stood  his  wife  with  a  four-weeks- 
old  baby  in  her  arms.  Three  other  children  clung  to  her 
skirts. 

"  'Have  you  anything  to  say  why  sentence  should  not 
be  passed  upon  you?'  the  judge  asked  the  prisoner. 

"  'Your  Honor/  said  Limberg,  'I  had  been  out  of 
work  for  many  weeks.  We  had  no  money.  When  I  took 
the  beef  we  had  nothing  to  eat  in  the  house.  There  is  the 
rent,  too,  but  the  landlord  had  been  kind.  Still,  one 
must  eat.' 

"Then  the  wife  came  forward. 

"  'Your  Honor,  it  is  true  we  are  poor.  My  husband 
is  honest  and  good.  When  he  has  Avork  we  are  happy. 
I  have  two  more  little  ones  at  home.  They  were  crying 
with  the  hunger.' 

"  'Discharged,'  said  the  Court."* 

*New  York  daily  paper,  Aug.  23,   J0£>. 


116  MARRIAGE    AND    RACE    DEATH 

It  is  clear  then  that  in  telling  the  negroes  this  is 
"the  best  time  America  ever  had/'  Wanamaker  was  the 
father  of  ignorance  or  the  father  of  lies.  He  did  not 
know  that  this  country  has  an  army  of  willing  men  in 
Limberg's  condition,  or  he  did  kno\v  it  and  prevaricated. 
I  think  he  well  knows  it  as  everybody  does,  that  he  pre- 
varicated from  policy  and  wilfully  like  the  rest  of  the 
parasite  monarchs.  So  he  is  a  charlatan — like  them. 
None  but  a  great  monopolist,  or  one  of  their  famous 
family  of  hired  buffoons  and  jack-puddings,  wrould  have 
uttered  this  criminal  untruth.  Yet  the  hired  buffoon 
wras  at  hand  to  reproclaim  his  lie:  the  very  paper  that 
told  Max  Limberg's  story  confirmed  Wanamaker  and 
said,  "There  never  was  a  time  when  brains  and  muscle 
wrere  surer  of  their  rewrard.  There  never  was  a  time 
when  it  was  easier  to  make  a  start  at  the  bottom,  or 
easier  to  keep  going  toward  the  top.  It  is  only  necessary 
to  head  in  the  right  direction  and  be  steady  and  industri- 
ous. *  *  *  There  never  was  a  time  when  there  was 
less  excuse  for  idleness."  (N.  Y.  Times.)* 

This  is  an  epitome  of  tapeworm  philosophy,  wielded 
by  the  tapeworm  class  to  anodyne  the  American  people. 
Ite  potency  is  the  magic  of  lying.  Assert,  assert,  and 


*It  is  well  to  let  these  papers  convict  themselves  of  ignorance,  unin- 
telligence,  or  mendacity.  The  lie  to  the  above  statement  by  The  Times  is 
given  by  The  Times  itself  in  an  editorial  of  Dec.  1,  '05,  as  follows. 
"Mr.  Vanderlip  notes,  what  is  universally  recognized  by  business  men, 
that  while  the  able,  active  workingman  has  in  recent  years  improved  his 
condition  under  tendencies  toward  specialization  and  concentration,  he  has 
to-day  'no  such  thing  as  industrial  independence';  that  when  forced  from 
the  industrial  machine  by  sickness,  accident,  or  old  age  his  state  is 
incomparably  worse  than  that  formerly  obtaining."  Yet  The  Times 
teaches  with  something  akin  to  insolence  under  the  circumstances,  that 
"There  never  was  a  time  when  brains  and  muscle  were  surer  of  their 
reward. ' J 


TAPEWORM     PHILOSOPHY  117 

assert,  is  its  mystical  secret,  explaining  in  some  measure 
why  men  give  their  bodies  and  souls  for  food  to  the  tape- 
worm rich. 

These  parasites  have  another  tower  of  strength,  how- 
ever, in  a  trick  which  an  intelligent  baboon  would  com- 
prehend at  sight.  (The  ape  tribe  is  morally  higher  than 
man,  never  having  fallen  before  the  thin  swindles  which 
have  besotted  the  man  tribe.)  The  tapeworms,  fearing 
they  might  be  removed,  hit  on  the  thougth  of  letting  a 
few  men  become  tapeworms  annually.  This  is  a  wonder- 
fully vapid  conception  from  the  human  viewpoint,  from 
the  tapeworm  side  it  was  a  flash  of  genius,  for  it  made 
men  from  then  to  this  day  tapeicorms'  slaves.  The  worms 
selected  for  promotion  men  already  best  fitted  out  with 
a  tapewrorm  nature — those  putrid  with  the  greatest 
avarice  for  other  men's  nutriment  and  skilfullest  in  the 
acquisitive  arts  of  getting  it.  By  this  stroke  they  en- 
listed for  them  all  men  with  tapeworm  tendencies — the 
men  who  hate  the  effort  of  providing  their  own  food  and 
love  the  easier  mode  of  getting  it  out  of  other  men's 
stomachs.  The  list  of  such  comprises  orators,  statesmen, 
presidents,  financiers,  lawyers,  traders,  manufacturers 
and  all  who  hope  to  succeed  by  making  other  people  work 
for  them,  as  well  as  philosophers,  economists,  preachers 
and  penmen,  in  the  pay  of  the  tapeworms.  And  it  must 
be  admitted  that  they  prevailed  in  their  argument  and 
convinced  the  multitude  that  the  best  way  to  make  a 
living  is  by  supporting  parasites. 

Their  arguments,  it  is  needless  to  say,  would  not  have 
convinced  the  intelligent  baboon  that  his  divine  destiny 
was  to  carry  and  feed  tapeworm  baboons  all  his  days, 


118  MARRIAGE    AND    RACE    DEATH 

and  that  he  fed  himself  best  by  feeding  himself  to  the 
worms. 

The  secret  of  the  juggle  may  be  spelled  out  by  man  if 
he  will  return  to  the  physical  comparison.  If  a  physical 
tapeworm,  fearing  a  violent  death,  were  to  announce  to 
the  cells  of  the  body,  his  residence,  that  if  they  would 
spare  him  he  would  permit  several  of  them  to  become 
tapeworms  like  himself  every  year,  to  devour  the  nutri- 
ment of  the  other  cells  and  give  them  disease — that  would 
be  the  method  of  the  tapeworm  rich  toward  mankind; 
and  if  the  cells  of  the  body  should  consent  to  it  and  grate- 
fully allow  the  worm  to  live  in  their  stomach  and  plunder 
their  life,  because  a  handful  of  them  could  graduate 
into  similar  worms  at  the  end  of  the  year — that  would 
be  the  method  of  mankind  toward  the  tapeworm  rich. 
It  is  even  worse :  if  all  the  bodily  cells  bowed  in  cowrardly 
worship  of  the  tapeworm  eating  their  life — that  would 
be  as  mankind  to  the  tapeworm  rich.  It  is  even  worse : 
if  the  cells  gave  as  a  reason  for  their  vile  worship  their 
gratitude  to  the  worm  for  letting  a  few  of  them  alter  into 
eaters  of  the  rest,  ichich  the  worm  only  did  to  save  him- 
self from  being  killed  by  the  cells — that  would  be  man's 
method  toward  the  tapeworm  rich.  It  is  even  worse: 
the  rich  are  not  less  social  cancers  than  social  tape- 
worms: they  are  disease  cells  in  the  system  of  mankind, 
as  such  taking  the  health  out  of  every  other  human  cell 
or  man,  vitiating,  consuming,  pusifying  the  whole  man- 
kind fabric:  If  now  in  the  physical  body  the  cancer 
should  proclaim  to  all  the  normal  cells  that  it  would 
change  a  few  of  them  into  cancer  cells  yearly  to  eat  the 
rest  of  the  body,  and  the  well  cells  should  consent — that 
is  what  mankind  does  toward  its  social  cancer  cells, 


TAPEWORM     PHILOSOPHY  119 

the  rich.  And  it  is  even  worse — for  all  the  units  of 
mankind  miserably  adore  these  social  cancer  rich,  whose 
mission,  like  the  body  cancer,  is  to  distil  the  poison  of 
death  into  them.  Men  will  not  let  the  social  cancer  be 
cut  out,  each  opposing  it  in  the  vile  hope  that  he  may 
become  one  of  its  execrable  devouring  cells.  And  through 
this  unspeakable  propensity  all  men  lead  a  cancer-eaten 
life  and  die  a  cancer-caused  death. 

As  wealth  getting  does  not  fall  within  the  sphere  of 
the  purpose  of  wealth,  so  neither  are  wealth  creation 
and  wealth  acquisition  in  any  sense  synonymous  in  the 
modern  world.  In  the  digestive  system  certain  cells  pre- 
pare the  nutriment  and  others  carry  it,  they  are  the 
wealth  creators;  the  tapeworm  seizes  and  swallows  it; 
and  is  the  wealth  acquisitor. 

Why,  then,  pay  for  the  tapeworm  faculty  of  acquisi- 
tion f  Why  colossally  bribe  it  to  expand,  as  if  it  were 
the  most  precious  of  man's  attributes?  The  right  faculty 
to  pay  and  encourage  is  that  of  using  wealth  with  the 
highest  wisdom.  And  the  highest  wisdom  is  very  simply 
determined,  being  to  so  dispense  the  wealth-nutriment 
that  the  most  perfect  race  will  result.  It  is  a  wisdom 
that  cannot  be  practised  while  tapeworms  are  eating  in 
the  social  vitals — as  a  man  cannot  have  strength  with  a 
tapeworm  in  his  digestive  tube. 


CHAPTER    XIV. 

RACE    NUTRITION  I    A    NEW    INALIENABLE    RIGHT. 

Now  the  right  of  material  equality,  which  our  fore- 
fathers partially  recognized  and  their  children  shame- 
lessly foreswore,  is  nothing  other  than  this  right  of  the 
best  race  nutrition.  All  the  wealth-nutriment  that  the 
race  can  get  is  not  yet  enough  for  its  full  nutrition  and 
perfect  development.  Parts  of  it  have  been  underfed 
through  cruel  injustice  too  long  to  be  brought  up  to 
health  and  readiness  for  growth  in  a  day.  He  wrho 
wastes  race  nutriment  is,  therefore,  the  most  heinous 
criminal  the  world  can  contain,  being  the  producer  of 
other  criminals,  and  sinning  against  the  highest  life,  race 
life,  which  contains  all  men:  he  cuts  down  the  stature 
of  men,  closing  their  entrance  into  an  unknown  glory 
through  the  portals  of  higher  growth ;  he  denies  them  the 
sublime  happiness  of  this  expansion,  the  most  exalted 
bliss  in  the  circle  of  human  consciousness ;  he  shuts  out 
light  from  the  spirit  and  the  spirit  pines  like  the  dark- 
ened plant.  The  waster  of  wealth  is  the  assassin  of 
evolution.  The  bloodhounds  of  intelligence  should  be 
set  on  him  and  his  evil  career  closed.  For  there  is  no 
iniquity  nameable  with  that  of  preventing  men  from 
growing  up  into  what  they  might  be. 

The  function  of  the  wealthy  is  to  waste  wealth,  so 
that  their  existence  is  race-assassination.  We  are  so 

120 


A  NEW    INALIENABLE    RIGHT  121 

mentally  bleared  through  worship  of  parasites  that  all 
true  language  about  them  seems  rough  and  violent,  and 
so  it  will  seem  until  by  studying  life  facts  wre  grasp  the 
effects  of  these  rich.  These  facts  tell  us  that  they  curse 
humanity,  that  they  are  the  fountain  of  the  social  dis- 
eases which  ashen  the  world  and  kill  races;  and  so, 
cleansing  society  of  them  (as  we  are  learning  to  extir- 
pate plagues),  being  the  sternest  condition  of  human 
progress,  must  be  made  the  fixed  resolution  of  mankind. 
Thus  alone  wrill  placing  of  race  wrealth-nutriment  where 
it  will  best  serve  race  growrth  be  achieved,  and  the  foun- 
dation of  a  perfect  race  formed. 

Now  material  equality  secures  the  most  favorable 
race  nutrition,  for  in  its  reign  no  talent  will  be  lost 
through  want  of  means  of  development.  Not  less  than 
nine-tenths  of  human  ability  is  thus  sacrificed.  The 
rescue  of  the  nine-tenths  of  human  power  lost  is  good 
ground  for  calling  intelligence  into  human  affairs. 
Through  such  sacrifice  nine-tenths  of  the  happiness 
offered  by  nature  to  man  is  rejected;  the  winged  steeds 
of  progress  are  chained  because  but  a  little  of  the  vital 
genius  of  a  generation  is  furnished  wTith  the  food  of 
Opportunity,  for  the  sinister  location  of  wealth  forbids 
true  culture  of  their  finest  talents  to  the  smothered 
milliards. 

We  must  content  ourselves  here  with  the  statement 
of  this  imperious  fact,  which  forms  the  basis  of  a  nobly 
revolutionary  doctrine  of  life,  and  with  the  thoughtful 
needs  only  statement  for  acceptance.  Talent  without 
independent  means  has  but  slender  hope  compared  with 
talent  and  a  private  purse.  It  is  noted  in  England 
(and  is  equally  true  here)  that  'in  all  the  professions 


122  MARRIAGE    AND    RACE    DEATH 

nowadays,  except  for  a  favored  few,  there  is  small 
chance  of  living  decently  upon  one's  earnings  until  one 
has  obtained  eminence,  and  that  it  is  next  to  impossible 
to  obtain  that  eminence  unless  one  possesses  outside 
resources.  The  actor,  author,  or  painter,  who  depends 
on  his  talent  for  his  daily  bread,  must,  perforce,  always 
be  potboiling,  for  shoulder  to  shoulder  to  him  stands  a 
comrade  in  art  wrhose  daily  bread  is  already  assured 
without  effort  on  his  part,  and  who  can,  therefore,  devote 
all  his  energies  to  his  magnum  opus.  Given,  therefore, 
equal  talent,  the  latter  produces  better  work,  and  to  the 
latter  fall,  naturally,  the  prizes.'  As  to  the  actor's  pro- 
fession, <no  words  can  be  too  strong  to  deter  any  one 
from  adopting  the  stage  as  a  means  of  actual  livelihood. 
The  chances  are  dead  against  him,  whatever  his  qualifi- 
cations.'* 

While  this  is  so  in  all  professions,!  the  great  majority 
are  debarred  by  material  pressure  from  entering  the 
competition  even  on  these  unfair  terms.  The  non- 
possessors  of  private  incomes  are  almost  excluded  from 
opportunities  of  higher  self-development,  while  many 
having  excessive  incomes  do  not  in  the  least  care  for 
any  development.  Society  could  scarcely  invent  a  more 
hostile  system  than  ours  to  race-progress. 

By  abolishing  the  rich  and  lifting  through  equality 
the  general  condition,  the  chance  and  stimulus  to  evolve 
are  given  to  all.  This  is  the  basis  of  a  better  race.  And 
every  one  is  born  with  the  inalienable  right  of  material 
equality,  because  a  better  race  is  the  exclusive  road  to 
the  higher  destiny  of  man. 

*A.  Austin-Leigh  in  the  London  Mail. 

f  Except  the  ministry,  which  is  largely  eleemosynary  and  recruited 
by  inferior  minds. 


A    NEW    INALIENABLE    RIGHT  123 

A  century  and  a  quarter  ago  nature  held  out  to  man 
a  brilliant  opportunity  to  achieve  the  higher  race;  the 
field  was  the  United  States,  laden  to  repletion  with  the 
rich  nutriment  of  life;  the  opportunity  was  not  unrecog- 
nized, but  it  was  rejected:  and  in  consequence  of  this 
self-betrayal  and  shame  we  must  begin  over  again.  Look- 
ing to  the  building  species  amalgamating  out  of  the 
hordes  of  Europe,  we  begin  to  see  race  problems  in  far 
grander  aspects  than  the  hitherto  strangled  training  of 
mankind  has  allowed. 


CHAPTEE  XV. 

RACE  EFFECT  OF  A  PHYSIOLOGICAL  LIE. 

The  death  of  a  race  from  internal  rot  is  the  reduction 
to  absurdity  of  its  system  of  life.  The  defining  word  of 
the  Western  system  of  life  is  Inequality,  and  as  the  cause 
of  the  creeping  extinction  of  modern  races,  by  the  inex- 
orable facts  of  nature  inequality  is  capitally  condemned. 

There  are  two  race  states  determinant  of  this  decay : 
while  a  stolid  low-browed  population  unconscious  of  its 
captivity  breeds  like  rabbits,  one  awakened  to  its  degra- 
dation loses  the  spirit  of  living  and  breeding,  and  is 
like  captive  animals  that  cease  their  reproduction. 

But  there  is,  secondly,  a  physiological  ground  of  race 
decay.  In  the  universe  wre  inhabit,  some  qualities  do 
not  chime  with  others  and  the  beings  wherein  they  are 
mixed  languish.  The  fact  might  give  substance  for  a 
science  of  Psychic  Chemistry.  In  a  race,  where  we  can 
judge  by  aggregates  and  totals,  the  law  blazes  its  force. 
If  the  governing  ideas  of  race  preserve  a  certain  unity 
they  may  be  very  vicious  ideas  and  the  race  still  abund- 
antly thrive ;  it  may  or  may  not  tend  to  improvement,  but 
it  need  not  spindle  or  die.  But  if  on  a  vicious  basis  some 
higher  ideas  are  installed,  there  may  occur  a  psychic  war 
ending  in  race  sterility;  and  if  in  good  psychic  ground 
some  vicious  principles  gain  a  fighting  base  the  result 
of  the  struggle  may  be  race  death.  Not  only  does  respect 

124 


CIVIL     WAR     IN     THE     BRAIN  125 

for  life's  content  collapse,  carrying  down  the  wish  for 
life  and  the  will  to  save  the  breed,  but  the  equilibrium 
of  the  vital  energies  is  demoralized  and  the  reproductive 
power  killed.  The  physical  and  psychical  workings  of 
this  phenomenon  are  still  obscure,  but  it  is  plain  that 
a  disharmony  in  the  individual  exhausts  and  neutralizes 
energy,  and  if  the  disharmony  reaches  to  all  the  individu- 
als of  the  group  its  vitality  is  sapped  and  its  reproduc- 
tive force  quenched. 

The  United  States  since  their  birth  have  been  pre- 
eminently the  history  of  such  a  discord.  It  might  be  said 
that  our  national  life  thus  far  has  been  a  grand  pageant 
to  test  the  fatality  of  inward  dissonance.  Let  us  try  to 
state  this  clash  of  principles  accurately.  The  structural 
ideas  of  our  Republic  were  belief  in  a  newT  liberty  and 
a  new  justice,  the  worth  of  man  was  to  be  honestly  rec- 
ognized in  a  new  and  high  sense ;  man  here  was  to  live  in 
freedom  from  every  tyranny ;  these  were  the  great  sacred 
conceptions  of  American  theory;  they  live  now  only  in 
man's  consciousness  of  what  ought  to  be  and  was  pri- 
mordially  intended — for  the  people  of  this  race  vividly 
knew  what  was  right  and  calmly  embraced  what  they 
vividly  knew  was  wrong.  This  is  the  deadly  discord  in 
the  American  brain.  In  the  United  States  restriction, 
injustice,  rapacity,  tyranny,  and  contempt  of  man,  have 
culminated :  America  has  built  the  apotheosis  of  inequal- 
ity, 

The  American  people  have  therefore  been  a  race  act- 
ing in  glaring  contradiction  to  their  principles,  profess- 
ing one  thing,  doing  its  opposite,  believing  one  course 
good,  greedily  guiding  their  lives  by  the  motives  that 
their  higher  perceptions  pronounce  vile.  This  inner 


126  MARRIAGE    AND    RACE    DEATH 

antagonism  annuls  self-respect.  "I  am  a  hyprocrite,"  is 
framed  large  in  every  man's  consciousness ;  the  best  part 
of  me  despises  the  life  I  live  with  all  my  energy" ;  "I  am  a 
coward,  a  public  liar."  These  sentiments  describe  the 
heart  of  the  American  citizen,  the  internecine  variance 
in  his  soul;  and  he  knows  by  it  that  he  is  not  wortr 
perpetuating,  that  his  race  is  a  community  of  liars,  nc  i 
fit  to  hand  on.  So  feeling,  his  life  is  in  its  depths  aii 
absolute  despair ;  he  works  madly  for  what  the  beautiful 
strands  in  his  soul  bitterly  scorn ;  the  selfishest  ambitions 
sweep  and  toss  him;  he  sees  no  use  in  life,  no  hope  for 
his  fellow^men  or  himself;  all  is  vile  and  there  is  no  seed 
grain  in  man  for  rejuvenation;  he  is  paralyzed;  and  if 
he  has  lapped  at  the  trough  of  modern  scholarism  he 
falls  into  the  paralytica  dementia  of  the  modern  profer 
sorlings  and  oscillates  between  an  insane  individualistic 
selfishness  in  which  he  worships  himself  as  a  God  and 
raves  against  the  right  of  any  other  beings  to  exist,  and 
the  abandoned  idiocy  that  Truth  will  prevail  without  the 
help  of  man^  so  let  all  men  rollick  and  swill  and  sleep. 
But  deeper  down  than  man's  consciousness  is  the 
physiological  animosity  of  such  opposites,  and  the  unfit- 
ness  of  race  and  individuals  that  are  the  vehicles  of  it 
to  survive.  It  is  not  because  the  universe  is  just,  there 
is  no  evidence  of  any  justice  in  it  apart  from  man's 
feeble  attempts:  it  is  merely  evidence  that  certain  con- 
tradictions are  mortal  to  the  organisms  which  try  to 
contain  them.  The  pitiless  injustice  of  the  universe  is 
seen  in  this,  that  every  individual,  race,  and  the  human 
race  as  a  whole,  are  teeming  with  contradictions  that 
are  destructive  almost  to  the  annihilation  of  their  hold- 
ers. Indeed,  persons  and  races  are  incessantly  being 


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slain  by  these  inner  antagonisms,  though  some  only 
strike  and  destroy  hecatombs  of  individuals,  permitting 
the  race  to  reel  on  to  prepare  more  hecatombs  for  the 
same  fate. 

e     But  the  conflict  of  living  an  absolute  lie,  which  is 
salient  character  of  every  civilized  people,  goes  fur- 
r,  in  many  racial  groups  exterminating  human  units 

aster  than  they  are  supplied.  The  lie  of  believing  in 
justice  and  universally  acting  injustice  tears  an  ana- 
tomical lesion  in  the  higher  brain  tracts  which  it  seems 
races  cannot  support.  The  lesion  does  not  spring  be- 
cause of  the  predominance  of  injustice,  but  because 
belief  does  not  coincide  with  the  injustice;  formerly  the 
injustice  was  even  greater  than  now,  but  men  wrere 
^hole-souled  in  it,  firm  in  the  brain  unison  of  belief  in 

.neir  crimes,  and  their  reproductive  vitality  prevailed 
exuberantly  and  races  teemed.  They  grew  as  long  as 
there  was  not  this  split  in  the  soul,  so  long  as  the  whole 
mind  supported  conduct,  ivhether  evil  or  good  conduct. 
This  has  been  called  in  the  blind  ages  faith,  it  is  in  fact 
unity  of  brain.  All  the  soul  power  in  such  a  state  sup- 
ports conduct,  and  the  concentrated  soul  power  is  enor- 
mous. Its  very  strength  is  seen  when,  as  to-day,  the 
soul  being  riven  in  twain  one  part  defies  the  other,  and 
there  is  civil  war  in  each  brain;  then  is  the  soul  laid 
waste  and  the  race,  which  depends  upon  an  intelligent 
brain  to  live,  falls  in  its  tracks.  It  is  a  sheer  question 
of  physics,  of  cell  physics  and  cell  chemistry,  but  far 
too  delicate  to  be  yet  pictured  in  mathematics.  For  us 
the  point  is  the  invincibility  of  the  process  and  its  physio- 
logical character.  In  the  deepest  sense  it  is  brain  pa- 
thology and  morbid  anatomy  of  race. 


128  MARRIAGE    AND    RACE    DEATH 

Justice  is  the  expression  of  greater  race  effectiveness. 
It  liberates  suppressed  power,  and  the  juster  race  has 
the  better  prospect  of  living  in  the  conflict  of  peoples. 
But  this  principle  has  thus  far  had  little  opportunity 
to  play  because  the  ruling  classes  of  all  nations  have 
been  a  unity  in  repressing  the  sprouting  justice  in  their 
realms.  Justice  would  destroy  their  supremacy  and  to 
hinder  that  they  have  smothered  the  germs  of  justice. 
The  ruling  classes  of  all  nations  have  been  and  are 
united  into  one  elect  consolidated  super-nation  of  their 
own,  over  the  rest,  to  act  in  concert  in  aborting  the 
attempts  of  any  of  their  people  to  gain  justice  against 
them.  All  ruling  classes  of  Europe  combined  to  crush 
the  aspirations  of  the  French  people  for  justice  in  their 
Great  Revolution,  and  the  ruling  classes  won. 

But  if  any  people  should  succeed  in  crushing  and 
abolishing  its  ruling  classes,  or  in  reabsorbing  them  into 
the  national  flesh,  so  that  their  supremacy  would  be  lost 
and  forgotten,  that  people  would  come  into  possession  of 
a  vast  new  sphere  of  vital  strength,  which  would 
support  its  preservation  against  the  unjust  races. 
And  this  justice  is  simply  equality,  justice  is  equality, 
and  the  nation  getting  most  of  it  will  have  an  immeasur- 
able vitality  for  surviving  over  others,  whereas,  peoples 
defeated  in  their  aspirations  for  it  will  tend  to  self- 
annihilation  through  purposed  sterility. 

And  inequality  has  now  become  suicidal  for  the 
following  reason,  that  while  the  common  multitude  of  a 
country  may  flag  in  the  battle  for  equality,  which  is  the 
abolition  of  ruling  and  owning  classes,  their  doing  so 
is  not  now  an  act  of  acquiescence,  but  of  despair,  upon 
the  heels  of  which  come  voluntary  depopulation  and  race 


CIVIL     WAR     IN     THE     BRAIN  129 

fall.  Hence  the  gigantic  conflict  of  the  civilized  world 
from  now  hence  will  be  between  Equality  and  Race 
Death. 

The  connection  of  this  conflict  with  that  of  the  great 
physiological  forces  designated  appears:  The  civilized 
peoples  of  to-day,  in  the  degree  of  their  intelligence, 
believe  in  equality,  while  they  act  in  fierce  and  furious 
defiance  of  it:  that  part  of  brain  which  is  higher  pro- 
nounces with  its  structure  for  human  equality:  that 
which  is  lower,  older,  larger,  functioning  the  more  brutal 
in  us,  and  still  mainly  governing  action,  declares  ~by  its 
structure  for  inequality,  and  the  result  is  that  civil  war 
in  the  soul  and  that  wound  or  lesion  in  the  brain  which 
are  the  precursors  and  cause  of  race  death.  Equality  has 
evolved  in  mankind  as  thought,  it  is  the  demand  of  the 
newer  part  of  man's  brain  matter,  the  perfecter  cortex, 
which  functions  his  higher  intelligence:  this  higher 
intelligence  must  project  and  realize  itself  in  the  struc- 
ture of  actual  life  or  must  die,  and  such  is  the  construc- 
tion of  man  that  if  the  newer  and  higher  part  of  brain 
dies,  the  race  in  which  it  has  grown  will  faint  and  die 
with  it. 

Therefore,  we  reach  the  law  that  henceforth  races 
aspiring  to  life  and  future  must  build  on  equality.  That 
they  must  bring  their  deeds  up  to  their  theories  on  pain 
of  death. 

Thus  the  work  of  the  coming  new  species  is  cut  out, 
and  thus  the  piteousness  of  the  old  breed  in  America 
in  giving  the  struggle  up  and  renouncing  its  country 
and  life  stands  solemnly  forth.  This  breed  is  the  sad- 
dest spectacle  in  world  history.  Never  were  there  such 
hopes  with  opportunities  of  such  shining  radiance  given 

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130  MARRIAGE    AND    RACE    DEATH 

to  a  race  of  men  prepared  by  their  conscious  emergence 
from  the  low  regime  of  Europe  to  strike  off  shackles  and 
redeem  the  human  soul :  and  to  understand  its  prodigy 
of  failure  we  must  particularly  discern  that  it  was  brain 
power  that  lacked.  The  force  of  higher  brain  was  suffi- 
cient to  see  the  best  course,  but  not  potent  to  realize, 
against  the  promptings  of  the  lower  and  worse  brain 
parts,  the  full  degree  of  its  superiority,  far  less  to  enact 
it.  Justice  and  equality  were  best  in  no  blurred  religious 
or  metaphysic  sense,  but  because  they  made  for  greater 
life.  Life  in  justice  would  be  greater  for  each  and  all 
men.  And  the  brain  lack  lay  in  the  collective  brains'  not 
having  force  to  conceive  the  grandeur  of  the  life  offered 
and  failing  to  be  moved.  We  may  represent  this  as 
deficiency  in  brain  size,  in  brain  quality,  in  number  and 
organization  of  cortical  cells  and  fibres,  in  the  relative 
growth  of  that  brain  section  which  provides  us  with  the 
larger  connections  of  intelligence :  however  we  state  the 
cause  of  the  catastrophe  it  was  at  bottom  the  defect  of 
our  mind  instrument,  the  brain;  the  emergency  called 
for  brain  vigor  and  volume,  and  we  were  brain  short. 
There  was  insufficient  higher  grey  stuff  to  dominate  the 
lower. 

It  still  remains  for  science  to  learn  what  higher  brain 
is.  It  may  be  cell  organization,  number  of  cells,  the  mul- 
tiplication of  tracks  or  connections  between  cells,  or 
these  all  with  other  elements.  Until  this  can  be  decided 
language  must  be  used  more  or  less  figuratively,  and  thus 
I  use  it  in  speaking  of  the  want  of  this  higher  brain  prod- 
uct as  a  vacuum,  a  brain  cavity,  as  a  special  brain  defi- 
ciency; because  if  a  higher  brain  would  not  actually  fill 
more  space  than  a  lower  the  space  it  does  occupy  would 


CIVIL    WAR    IN    THE     BRAIN  131 

be  far  more  richly  filled  in  quality  and  quantity  of  con- 
tent. This  should  be  borne  in  mind  when  space  terms  of 
brain  are  used.  I  am  identifying  lack  of  mind  power 
with  lack  of  brain  additions,  that  we  may  study  to  insert 
these  additions.  They  will  bring  us  the  mind  we  are 
barren  of. 

A  society  that  legislates  injustice  and  inequality  does 
so  from  unpoverished  wit;  for  in  our  day  the  higher 
brain  has  gained  too  far  on  the  lower  to  be  overridden 
or  neglected,  and  to  disregard  it  is  witlessness.  Cattle 
growers  who  try  to  lead  a  calf  to  a  richer  feeding  ground 
find  that  the  simple  beast  will  not  stir  till  it  is  dragged 
by  the  neck — through  a  shortage  of  wit,  the  same  as 
man's. 


CHAPTER  XVI. 

THE  AMERICAN  BRAIN. 

Proofs  of  this  brain  squalor  can  be  given  in  detail, 
showing  where  American  mind  is  dwarfed,  and  the  cases 
will  serve  as  the  brain-dissection  of  a  race  that  can  throw 
away  its  country  and  life,  as  in  a  sense  the  brain  dia- 
gram of  a  race  of  defectives.  Our  race-defectiveness, 
already  betrayed  by  our  race  sterility,  will  be  clinched 
and  established  by  the  tpye  of  brain  these  cases  show  us 
to  have. 

We  present  the  greatest  experts  in  moral  and  legal 
crime  with  the  greatest  fortunes;  the  richest  man  in 
the  world  is  a  Rockefeller  and  the  greatest  criminal  in 
the  world  is  Rockefeller;  but  through  brain  blight,  the 
American  people  nourish  this  viper  in  their  lives  while 
he  strikes  them.  Though  the  deadliest  he  is  but  one  of  a 
family  of  moral  and  legal  lepers  of  the  worst  stamp 
human  society  can  generate;  but  American  society  does 
not  think  so;  it  chases  petty  thieves,  burglars,  bandits, 
forgers,  and  murderers  of  single  people,  with  bloody 
frenzy  into  the  jail  or  death-chair,  mowing  at  thejn, 
sometimes  lynching  them,  while  its  Frankenstein  crimi- 
nals, its  rich,  its  family  of  vipers,  it  warms  at  its  breast, 
not  only  as  if  they  were  good  but  with  a  kind  of  raving 
transport  of  maternal  fondness.  It  is  because  the  ele- 

132 


THE    AMERICAN    BRAIN  133 

inents  going  to  make  up  a  sound  true  brain  are  not  all 
there ;  it  is  a  definitive  idiocy  in  the  higher  brain  centres. 
For  while  the  higher  brain  has  gained  much  on  the  beast 
brain,  it  has  not  gained  enough  to  organize  the  salvation 
of  common  sense. 

We  nurture  another  class  in  the  art  of  breaking  law 
and  reward  them  Avith  the  gift  of  the  second  greatest 
fortunes.  The  income  of  Dodd,  a  Rockefelleran  solicitor, 
is  said  to  be  or  have  been  $250,000  a  year,  and  the  earn- 
ings of  other  corporation  counsel  are  placed  at  that 
figure.  It  is  said  that  Dodd  wras  so  chastely  virtuous  and 
sprightly  in  fighting  Rockefeller's  earlier  crimes  that 
Rockefeller  found  he  needed  him  to  convoy  his  later 
crimes  and  bought  him  at  so  much  a  brain  gram.  These 
lawyers  are  modern  Condottieri,  the  mercenary  troopers 
of  reptile  brain-cunning  who  sell  their  souls  at  the  auc- 
tion block,  and  fight  and  blackleg  for  the  scoundrel  that 
bids  best.  Their  work  is  to  save  the  rich  from  the  jail 
and  hangman.  But  as  there  are  laws  against  murder  on 
the  American  books,  these  Condottieri  hang  a  few  poor 
men  annually  as  scapegoats  to  appease  the  people's  one- 
eyed  sense  of  justice,  lest  the  people  should  require  the 
blood  of  the  great  slayers,  these  lawyers'  clients.  There 
is  no  murder  if  it  is  not  murder  to  lay  traps  into  which 
men  will  fall  and  die.  It  does  not  erase  the  murder 
element  if  not  all  men  who  drop  into  the  trap  die,  nor 
if  the  purpose  of  the  trap  is  money-getting ;  if  it  is  known 
that  the  trap  will  infallibly  kill  some  of  its  victims  it  is 
murder.  Society  is  dotted  with  these  traps  set  by  the 
rich  for  the  people.  Money-making  is  the  spoken  object 
but  it  is  infallibly  known  they  will  kill — even  the  num- 
ber to  be  killed  can  be  told  in  advance.  The  railroad 


134  MARRIAGE    AND    RACE    DEATH 

traps  murder  10,000  a  year  and  injure  eight  times  as 
many  more;*  most  of  these  tragedies  are  preventible  if 
the  railroad  heads  would  install  known  safety  appli- 
ances ;  they  smilingly  decline  on  account  of  expense,  and 
smilingly  kill  more.  After  a  preventible  wreck  costing 
men's  lives,  the  president  and  directors  of  the  road 
should  be  hanged  for  murder.  Soon  railroad  casualties 
would  cease,  saving  ten  thousand  dead  and  eighty  thou- 
sand mutilated  annually.  For  example,  by  a  signal  sys- 
tem which  warns  the  engineer  of  a  misplaced  switch 
some  time  before  he  reaches  it,  most  of  the  passenger 
wrecks  at  open  switches  would  be  averted.  But  passen- 
gers must  die  like  rats  in  these  traps  because  it  is  disa- 
greeable to  railway  bosses  to  place  the  protections. 

These  murdering  presidents  are  not  hanged  as  they 
should  be*  because  of  the  unfinished  condition  of  the 
American  brain,  which  flays  boys  and  petty  transgres- 
sors with  extreme  stripes  and  cossets  the  great  blacklegs. 
Alfonso  Sica,  17  years  old,  was  sentenced  to  fourteen 
years  and  six  months  in  State  prison  by  Justice  Mc- 
Mahon  for  holding  up  and  robbing  a  man  in  New  York. 
His  five  accomplices,  also  boys,  escaped.  The  sentenc- 
ing Judge  said,  "The  highwayman  must  go."  (June,  ?05.) 
Now  try  to  picture  the  structure  of  a  people's  brain  that 
can  smile  off  ten  thousand  ruffianly  murders  by  railway 
presidents  annually  and  wall  np  a  lad  for  fifteen  years 
who  killed  and  bruised  no  one :  it  will  point  to  holes  in 
the  brain  as  the  reason  why  our  justice  is  imbecile. 


*In  17  years,  from  1888  to  1904,  inclusive,  the  railroads  of  this 
country  have  murdered  123,206  persons,  and  injured  747,736.  (See  1904. 
Eeport  of  Interstate  Commerce  Commission.)  If  ten  leading  railway 
owners  had  been  hanged  17  years  ago  90  per  cent,  of  these  dead  and 
wounded  would  have  been  saved. 
**  Under  capital  punishment  laws. 


THE    AMERICAN    BRAIN  135 

Three  wealthy  gentlemen  entered  a  sleeping  coach  at 
the  Grand  Central  station  in  New  York,  terrorizing  the 
women  occupants  into  flight  and  assaulting  the  station 
men  who  interfered.  They  were  fined  $5  each  for  their 
fun.  They  icere  rich.  For  his  fun  Alfonso  Sica  will 
languish  in  the  penitentiary  15  of  the  best  years  of  his 
life — because  he  icas  poor. 

"W.  T.  Horsnell  and  Royal  B.  Stearns,  charged  with 
conspiracy  to  defraud  the  Government  out  of  lands  in 
South  Dakota,  were  found  guilty  this  afternoon  by  a 
jury  in  the  United  States  Court  and  sentenced,  Stearns 
to  eighteen  months'  imprisonment,  with  a  fine  of  $1,000, 
and  Horsnell  to  six  months  and  a  fine  of  $500."  (Dec. 
19,  ?05.)  But  the  little  thieves  must  go,  and  they  sent 
Alfonso  Sica  up  for  nearly  15  years. 

Bartlett  Richards  and  W.  G.  Comstock  were  prosecu- 
ted in  the  Federal  Court  at  Omaha  "for  the  illegal  fenc- 
ing of  212,000  acres  of  Government  land  in  Sheridan 
county,  Nebraska.  Upon  pleading  guilty  the  defendants 
were  sentenced  to  remain  for  six  hours  in  the  custody  of 
the  United  States  marshal  and  pay  a  fine  of  $300  each" 
(Nov.  16,  '05 ).  U.  S.  Secretary  Hitchcock  said  of  the 
verdict,  "I  am  surprised  and  indignant.  The  punish- 
ment is  utterly  inadequate.  The  indictment  was  the  re- 
sult of  four  years  of  determined  effort  and  the  expendi- 
ture of  thousands  of  dollars  by  the  department,  We  had 
selected  large  operators,  hoping  the  result  would  be  a 
warning  to  those  engaged  on  a  smaller  scale."  All  the 
power  of  the  United  States  Government  was  behind  this 
prosecution  and  it  ended  in  a  screaming  farce.  Alfonso 
Sica  wras  convicted  in  ten  minutes  for  fourteen  years 
and  a  half. 


136  MARRIAGE    AND    RACK    DEATH 

It  is  reported  that  while  these  gentieinen  were  serving 
their  6-hour  term  in  prison  they  prepared  a  banquet 
and  invited  their  friends  to  a  6-hour  feast.  District  At- 
torney Jerome's  picture  of  New  York  Supreme  Court 
Justices  is  a  likeness  of  nearly  all  the  judges  in  the 
country.  "For  most  of  them,"  said  he,  "I  have  not  even 
ordinary  decent  respect."  For  most  of  the  judges  of  all 
courts  in  the  United  States  no  one  can  have  ordinary  de- 
cent respect  when  he  reads  what  they  do. 

Abraham  H.  Hummel,  a  New  York  attorney,  was 
convicted  of  conspiracy  in  the  Dodge-Morse  divorce  af- 
fair and  sentenced  to  one  year  in  penitentiary  and  a 
fine  of  $500  (Dec.  20,  ?05).  He  was  taken  to  the  Tombs, 
spent  41/2  hours  in  a  cell,  and  was  then  let  out  on  $10,000 
bail.  On  the  following  day  he  was  doing  business  in  his 
office.  If  Alfonso  Sica  could  have  tipped  the  lawyers 
properly,  who  Avould  have  made  it  right  with  the  Judge, 
he  would  have  been  out  to  do  business  at  his  stand  the 
next  day.  Bigelow,  of  Milwaukee,  stole  $3,000,000  and 
only  got  10  years,  by  good  behavior  reducible  to  T1/?,  and 
by  pardon  to  two. 

Let  not  the  poor  man  think  there  is  any  law  for  him 
in  this  country. 

Two  ~boys  were  starved  fifty  hours  ~by  the  New  York 
police  because  they  would  not  tell  where  they  got  a 
watch.  They  were  poor  boys.  'Three  boys  were  trying 
to  pawn  a  watch  for  $8  in  Harlem  when  they  were 
arrested  on  Monday  morning  by  Detectives  Fitzsimmons 
and  Zimmerman,  of  the  West  One  Hundred  and  Twenty- 
fifth  Street  Station.  The  only  offense  they  committed, 
so  far  as  known,  was  that  they  refused  to  tell  the  detec- 
tives where  they  got  the  watch.  Upon  the  detectives' 


THE    AMERICAN    BRAIN  137 

request,  Magistrate  Barlow  remanded  the  boys  to  the 
station  in  the  hope  that  they  would  confess  where  they 
got  the  watch.  All  Monday  and  Monday  night  they  lay 
in  the  cells  without  food.  They  did  not  confess,  so  on 
Tuesday  the  detectives  again  asked  that  they  be  remanded, 
and  this  was  done,  their  hearing  being  set  for  2  P.  M. 
yesterday.  Schuerberg  was  sent  to  prison,  but  the  other 
two  went  back  to  the  police  station.  The  two  boys  re- 
mained obdurate,  although  they  wrere  very  hungry. 
Well-fed  policemen  and  prisoners  and  witnesses  and 
loungers  were  all  around  them,  but  the  two  boys  were 
dizzy  with  hunger. 

When  the  three  boys  were  arraigned  at  2  P.  M., 
Magistrate  Moss  noticed  that  Schandler  and  Katok  were 
very  pale  and  too  weak  to  walk. 

"What  ails  these  prisoners?"  the  Magistrate  asked. 
Sergt.  McGirr  told  him. 

"This  is  one  of  the  most  outrageous  cases  that  has 
ever  come  to  my  notice/'  said  Magistrate  Moss.  "These 
boys  are  starved  almost  to  death,  yet  it  is  nobody's  busi- 
ness to  take  care  of  them."  '  (N.  Y.  World,  Dec.  11,  '05.) 
Things  of  this  kind  will  cause  a  bloody  revolution. 
Gentlemen  of  the  rich  class,  if  your  heads  fall  into 
baskets  who  will  have  caused  it? 

Lawyer  B.  F.  Chadsey,  of  Brooklyn,  pleads  guilty  to 
stealing  f 900  from  a  client  and  is  given  one  year  in  the 
penitentiary.  (Dec.  18,  '05.)  Highwaymen  of  his  kind 
needn't  go. 

Banker  W.  E.  Brown,  of  Sioux  City,  Iowa,  wrecks  a 
bank  by  misappropriation  of  funds  and  loses  the  creditors 
1185,000.  He  is  sentenced  on  six  counts  to  30  years,  but 
the  terms  are  to  run  concurrently  so  that  the  30  is  re- 


138  MARRIAGE    AND    RACE    DEATH 

duced  to  5  years.  If  you  are  a  criminal  be  a  banker. 
"Thomas  Ward,  of  Le  Mars,  la.,  gambled  away  $30,000 
of  his  depositors'  money,  and  after  a  long  trial  was  sen- 
tenced to  one  month  in  the  county  jail  and  never  spent  a 
single  night  in  a  cell.  Letson  Balliett,  of  Des  Moines, 
who  added  promoting  to  his  banking,  was  prosecuted  for 
causing  a  loss  of  $250,000,  and  he  escaped  with  a  thirty- 
day  jail  sentence."  (Newspaper  Special,  Oct.  16,  '05. ) 
Poor  men  get  fourteen  years  and  a  half. 

Here  is  another  poor  man  in  the  clutches  of  Judges. 
"John  Madison,  the  burglar  who  got  into  Edward  H. 
Van  Ingen's  residence,  at  9  East  Seventy-first  Street, 
[N.  Y.],  and  packed  up  $1,200  wrorth  of  silverware  and 
jewelry,  but  wras  caught  before  he  could  get  out  of  the 
house  with  it,  was  sentenced  to  twenty-five  years  in  the 
State  prison  by  Judge  Cowing  in  General  Sessions  yes- 
terday. Tm  glad  of  it,'  said  Madison.  <I  wouldn't  care 
if  I  had  been  sent  up  for  fifty  years.  I  have  consump- 
tion, and  I  want  to  get  where  I  can  be  taken  care  of.  I 
tried  to  get  into  two  hospitals  in  this  city  before  I  did 
the  Van  Ingen  job,  but  they  wouldn't  take  me,  and  I 
had  to  get  along  the  best  way  I  could  without  treat- 
ment.' "  [N.  Y.  Times,  Jan.  10,  '06.] 

Bigelow  steals  $3,000,000  and  is  given  nominally  ten 
years ;  Burton  continues  to  draw  his  salary  as  U.  S.  Sena- 
tor after  his  first  conviction ;  banker  Ward  gambles  away 
$30,000  of  his  creditors'  money  and  gets  thirty  days; 
Richards  and  Comstock  steal  212,000  acres  of  Govern- 
ment land  and  are  punished  with  6  hours  of  gluttonous 
revelry  in  jail ;  John  Madison,  a  poor  man  and  consump- 
tive, did  not  get  away  with  1,200  dollars'  worth  of  a  rich 
woman's  trash  and  is  hustled  off  to  prison  for  25  years. 


THE    AMERICAN    BRAIN  139 

Who  would  be  surprised  to  see  the  hordes  of  American 
poor  breaking  out  in  volcanic  vengeance? 

Suppose  that  Alfonso  Sica  had  presented  a  thou- 
sandth of  his  stolen  swag  to  Yale  University.  When 
Eockefeller  conferred  a  million  of  his  stealings  on  that 
institution,  Senator  Brandegee,  who  had  newly  bought 
his  way  into  the  United  States  Senate  from  Connecticut, 
gave  thanks  for  the  Yale  alumni  thus:  "Bring  on  your 
tainted  money.  We  will  purify  it  with  the  Yale  spirit 
and  consecrate  it  to  the  blessed  mission  of  educating 
noble  men  to  uphold  the  institutions  of  our  glorious 
country,  and  with  wisdom,  patriotism  and  liberal  conser- 
vatism keep  her  in  the  front  rank  of  the  nations  of  the 
world."  Must  we  not  say,  "You  will  consecrate  it  to 
educating  men  to  uphold  the  institutions  of  our  glorious 
Rockefellerism?"  If  Sica  had  given  Yale  the  same  pro- 
portion of  his  plunder  as  Eockefeller,  would  silver-lipped 
grafters  have  sung  his  greatness  to  keep  him  out  of  Sing 
Sing? 

Speaking  in  strictly  scientific  language,  not  in  vio- 
lence or  bitterness,  a  people  in  whom  such  contrasts  set 
no  moral  conflagration  is  the  victim  of  moral  idiocy,  of 
brain  gaps  or  depressions  where  the  brain  stuff  necessary 
to  normal  intelligence  should  be.  A  whole  nation  can- 
not be  subjected  to  curative  or  evolutionary  treatment 
like  specific  imbeciles,  but  the  problem  calls  for  hospital 
methods  to  build  in  defective  mentality  none  the  less. 
The  specific  imbecile  is  one  who  staggers  in  the  ordinary 
functions  of  every  day  life,  the  imbecility  under  our 
analysis  has  to  do  with  the  larger  physiological  func- 
tions of  man  in  relation  to  man.  A  journal  with  humor 
that  eats,  thus  symbolizes  our  psychic  flaw:  "John 


140  MAUKlAGE    AND    KACE 

Smith  No.  1  stole  one  chicken.  He  was  sent  to  jail  for 
thirty  days.  While  there  he  reformed  and  became 
another  man.  He  became  John  Smith  No.  2.  John  Smith 
No.  2  organized  a  Chicken  Trust,  took  2,000,000  chickens 
as  his  fee  for  organizing  it,  and  sold  the  chickens  when 
the  market  was  at  its  highest.  Thus  he  was  enabled  to 
endow  the  jail  with  a  library.  This  goes  to  show  that 
if  we  ponder  properly  over  our  misdeeds  we  may  readily 
see  where  we  did  not  make  them  big  enough." 

While  an  ordinary  brain  through  disease  may  lose  a 
certain  measurable  quantity  of  brain  matter,  causing 
specific  imbecility,  brains  that  have  not  evolved  some 
needed  higher  part  are  the  victims  of  this  higher  idiocy. 
We  may  picture  them  as  hollowed,  concave,  or  as  qual- 
itatively indented.  A  whole  nation  is  in  this  state  if  it 
endures  wonderful  outrages  without  indignation.  A 
Lobley  robs  the  Equitable  Insurance  Society  of  $27,816 
and  goes  to  Sing  Sing  for  eight  years,  while  Hyde,  Alex- 
ander, Depew  and  other  rich  directors  conspire  and  rob 
the  policy  holders  of  great  sums  in  amazing  ways,  writh 
as  little  fear  of  Sing  Sing  as  Louis  XIV  had  of  the 
Bastile.  Our  society  is  one  in  which  the  big  fish  eat 
the  little  fish,  but  if  a  little  fish  nibbles  the  tail  of  a  big 
one  it  goes  to  Sing  Sing. 

The  Judge  sentenced  Lobley  with  the  words:  "The 
fact  remains  that  the  defendant  was  experienced  in  com- 
mitting crime  and  knew  the  fearful  consequences.  I 
cannot  see  that  he  has  any  excuse."  Had  Lobley  replied : 
"I  have  the  excuse  of  seeing  that  the  Equitable  mana- 
gers have  been  swindling  the  policy  holders  out  of  im- 
mense sums  for  many  years,  that  they  are  much  more 
experienced  and  successful  in  crime  than  I,  that  no 


THE    AMERICAN    BRAIN  141 

fearful  consequences  have  overtaken  them,  owing  to  the 
compassion  of  Courts,  that  one  is  a  noble  Senator  of  his 
country,  that  all  are  America's  choicest  citizens,  and 
that  not  one  will  see  Sing  Sing  for  robbing  widows  and 
orphans  of  sums  painfully  gathered  for  their  support"- 
the  Judge  would  have  had  a  moral  fit  and  would 
have  sternly  "rebuked"  Lobley  for  envy  and  malice 
toward  men  high  exalted  above  him  in  ability  and 
righteous  desert.  And  the  people  would  have  sustained 
and  promoted  the  Judge.  They  have  sustained  his  ver- 
dict, for  Lobley  is  still  in  prison  and  the  respectable 
widow-robbers  are  free.  The  grey  matter  of  brain,  to 
which  we  are  applying  tests,  in  standing  for  this  prosti- 
tution of  justice  in  the  service  of  the  wealthy,  shows  its 
character.  If  many  insurance  officers  and  directors  are 
not  placed  in  Sing  Sing  for  much  longer  terms  than 
Lobley's  eight  years,  the  doors  of  that  dungeon  must  be 
opened  and  its  throng  of  little  culprits  released.  It  is 
only  for  thieves  who  need  bread  and  are  not  members 
of  the  millionaires'  Crime  Trust  that  "justice"  is  done. 
A  policy  holder  computes  the  aggregate  wealth  of  the 
forty-nine  grafting  Equitable  directors  *  at  $751,000,000. 
Would  a  nation  that  has  freely  presented  forty-nine 
selected  individuals  with  nearly  a  billion  of  its  wealth 
actually  lodge  these  objects  of  national  love  behind  bars 
for  stealing?  Rather  we  place  young  girls  and  women 
in  jail  for  that,  not  our  endowed  pets.  Five  "very  tear- 
ful young  women"  were  arraigned  before  Magistrate 
Whitman  in  Jefferson  Market  Court,  New  York  (Aug. 
16,  ?05),  for  withholding  money  received  from  customers 

*Those  who  did  not  directly  steal  permitted  it.     Such  favors  are 
returned  in  the  business  world. 


142  MARRIAGE    AND    RACE    DEATH 

in  a  Sixth  Avenue  department  store  where  they  are 
saleswomen.  Three  were  held,  but  the  magistrate  pitied 
two  who  had  sick  and  dependent  relatives  and  dis- 
charged them.  Are  the  billion-dollar  Equitable  shop- 
lifters not  arraigned  because  they  have  sick  relatives? 
Would  a  kind  providence  have  enabled  the  three  girls 
who  were  held  to  escape  if  they  had  previously  stolen 
fifty  millions? 

On  the  day  that  great  Law  bastiled  these  daughters 
of  America  the  same  law  presented  the  forty-nine  Equi- 
table grafters  with  $123,400  as  an  expression  of  the 
nation's  regard.  That  sum  was  income  on  $751,000,000 
for  one  day  at  6  per  cent.  Probably  the  amount  was 
much  greater,  for  on  many  investments  of  the  nation's 
favorites  dividends  up  to  85  per  cent,  and  higher  are 
regularly  paid.  But  let. us  be  moderate  to  excess  and 
call  the  rate  but  6.  This  $123,000  was  not  given  to  the 
forty-nine  as  one  day's  testimony  of  the  people's  love, 
but  every  day  in  the  year,  so  that  by  the  year's  end  they 
have  received  $45,060,000  as  an  earnest  of  the  nation's 
affection.  And  it  sends  its  girls  to  the  bastile.  Three 
of  these  darlings  are  particular  objects  of  national  care/ 
J.  J.  Astor,  G.  J.  Gould,  and  A.  G.  Vanderbilt,  having 
each  secured  from  the  American  people  $100,000,000  or 
more  to  start  with,  are  daily  given  not  less  than  $16,400, 
six  millions  a  year,  or  $18,000,000  for  the  three— while 
to  three  American  girls,  whose  parents  were  kind  enough 
not  to  appropriate  the  original  three  hundred  millions, 
whose  chief  crime  is  that  by  working  every  day  to  enrich 
others  they  cannot  earn  enough  to  live  rightly  them- 
selves, the  American  people  give,  not  $18,000,000  but 
jail. 


THE    AMERICAN    BRAIN  143 

This  is  very  interesting.  It  almost  leads  us  to  ask 
why  the  nation  so  loves  its  forty-nine  grafters  and  its 
milliardaires  and  so  hates  its  young  girls  that  it  has  a 
chain  of  bastiles  in  waiting  for  them.  Its  six  rnillion- 
dollar-a-year  affection  for  Astor  is  because  an  ancestor 
of  his  took  land  which  the  toil  of  the  American  people 
has  since  given  vast  value  to;  it  loves  Gould  $6,000,000 
worth  because  his  father  was  the  ideal  railroad  pirate 
and  criminal  up  to  that  date;  and  it  gives  Vanderbilt 
six  million  dollars  of  love  annually  because  his  recent 
progenitor  knew  how  to  corner  colossal  commerical 
privileges,  for  which  when  gotten  he  taxed  the  people 
until  he  had  sweated  his  huge  fortune  out  of  them.  On 
every  dollar  that  he  sweated  (stole)  from  us,  we  now 
have  to  pay  his  children  interest.  There  is  rumor  of 
increasing  the  Standard  Oil  capital  stock,  from  $100,- 
000,000  to  $600,000,000,  which  would  be  a  "stock  divi- 
dend" of  500  per  cent.  On  this  hundred  million  the 
dividends  are  40  and  50  per  cent, — forty  to  fifty  million 
dollars  annually  given  to  the  Standard  fondlings  as 
Christmas  gifts  by  the  people.  The  total  love  borne  to 
Rockefeller  by  the  American  nation  is  from  fifty  to  a 
hundred  millions  annually,  which  is  added  to  the  sum 
on  which  they  must  give  him  the  gift  of  interest  next 
year.  He  receives  this  gigantic  charity  because  he  has 
taken  more  race-nutriment  from  the  population  than 
any  one  else. 

In  some  way  these  stupendous  annual  gifts  to  the 
people's  dearest  citizens  must  be  raised,  and  they  are 
collected  from  the  girls,  boys,  women  and  men  who  work 
productively,  the  nation's  stubble.  These  do  convict 
work  and  are  thrown  into  the  solid  bastiles  if,  in  body 


144  MARRIAGE    AND    RACE    DEATH 

or  soul  hunger,  they  pilfer  a  few  more  pennies  than 
the  convict  rations  their  task-masters  allot  them.  This 
is  the  real  philosophy  of  American  Love. 

Henry  Clark,  a  youth  of  18,  on  the  night  before  the 
three  girls  were  jailed,  sought  to  end  his  life  "by  letting 
a  northbound  Lexington  Avenue  car  cut  off  his  head  at 
Seventeenth  Street.  He  picked  out  a  spot  where  there  is 
a  grade.  The  motorman  stopped  the  car  less  than  two 
feet  from  the  boy."  But  John  Wanamaker  says  this  is 
the  best  time  America  ever  had.  Clark  had  to  try  to  kill 
himself  before  he  could  come  in  for  his  share  of  the  best 
time.  Only  then  would  any  one  assist  him  in  the  attempt 
to  find  work  and  escape  starvation.  He  was  one  of  the 
American  stubble,  without  graft  or  a  pirate  grandfather. 

From  Newark  we  learn  that  "Thomas  N.  McCarter, 
President  of  the  Public  Service  Corporation,  has  had 
plans  drawn  for  a  mansion  to  cost  f  100,000,  to  be  erected 
on  his  estate  on  the  Rumson  Road,  at  Seabright.  The 
house  will  have  forty  rooms,  with  a  telephone  in  each. 
There  will  also  be  nine  bathrooms.  Mr.  McCarter  is 
having  a  costly  stable  and  garage  erected  on  his  prop- 
erty." This  is  a  modest  cottage  compared  with  many 
of  the  palaces  the  American  stubble  present  their  kings, 
and  the  home  of  many  American  citizens  is  in  lumber 
piles,  box  cars  and  filthy  lodging  houses. 

From  the  ranks  of  the  Rich  or  their  legal  Condottieri 
the  people  choose  their  rulers  and  lawmakers.  As 
a  gauge  of  brain  texture  this  is  like  mice  electing  cats 
to  rule  them.  Lawyer  Root  is  widely  advertised  by  being 
War  Secretary  and  builds  up  great  pull  among  politi- 
cians: he  retires  to  law  and  commands  swollen  fees  for 
his  counsel  supported  by  political  connections  and  weight. 


THE    AMERICAN    BRAIN  145 

His  private  income  is  now  immense  and  is  much  of  it 
due  to  his  government  position.  He  is  recalled  to  politics 
as  State  Secretary  and  is  welcomed  with  salvos  of  ad- 
miration for  sacrificing  his  private  prosperity  (which 
was  so  much  a  gift  of  the  nation).  From  a  hireling  of 
the  wealth-lords,  knowing  their  secrets,  trusted  to  guide 
their  conspiracies  to  rob  common  men,  and  loyally  doing 
so  for  lucre,  he  is  elevated  again  to  a  foremost  place  as 
the  people's  protector,  where  his  voice  wrill  be  forceful  in 
deciding  the  Government's  usage  of  his  liberal  masters 
of  yesterday,  the  corporations.  After  "protecting"  the 
people  a  while,  advertising  his  name  more  and  amassing 
new  political  influence,  a  strictly  saleable  asset,  he  will 
return  a  second  time  to  his  former  employers,  the  wealthy, 
to  serve  them  for  still  greater  fees  against  the  people, 
by  selling  the  added  prestige  gained  from  the  people 
through  his  latest  office.  For  pay  he  has  no  scruple  to 
nail  on  the  nation  the  tyranny  of  the  rich,  for  pay 
he  sells  to  commercial  lords  the  power  public  office  gave 
him. 

A  lawyer  can  do  this,  all  lawyers  do,  but  a  truly 
honorable  man  would  kill  himself  first.  Since  Root  (if 
he  fails  of  the  presidency)  will  go  back  to  serve  the 
Trusts,  he  must  keep  their  favor :  howr  real  will  his  work 
for  the  people  against  the  rich  be  now  while  he  is  a  public 
secretary?  He,  with  Beck  and  Dill,  is  one  who  finds  out 
the  combination  of  the  people's  safe,  for  the  capitalist 
Yeggmen  to  go  in  and  rob  it.  When  the  people  make 
him  a  public  ruler  it  is  the  appointment  of  a  cat  by  mice 
to  be  their  policeman.  We  must  revert  to  the  bad 
anatomy  of  the  American  brain  to  understand  it. 

A  lawyer  who  does  these  things,  being  the  hired  man 


146  MARRIAGE    AND    RACE    DEATH 

of  grafters,  aiding  them,  is  himself  a  grafter.  The  wealth 
kings  are  amassing  milliards  out  of  men  by  thievery  and 
every  lawyer  who  serves  them  is  a  thief.  When  they 
get  laws  which  make  their  stealing  safe  they  are  thieves 
and  prostitutes,  for  they  have  prostituted  law.  In  this 
drabbing  of  law  the  lawyers  are  the  procurers  or  pimps 
who  fix  things  for  the  rich  to  enter  in  and  enjoy.  Our 
Senate,  Congress  and  Legislatures,  mostly  filled  with 
lawyers  and  money-bags,  are  little  else  than  houses  of 
legal  prostitution,  providing  strumpet  laws  for  the  com- 
mercial debaucheries  of  the  rich. 

We  have  a  definition  of  the  graft  system  by  one  of  the 
chief  legal  grafters,  James  B.  Dill,  a  lawyer  who  has 
sold  his  brain  for  a  great  price  to  the  Trust-builders. 
"Graft,"  he  says,  "is  the  advanced  stage  of  the  craze  for 
unearned  money.  *  *  *  It  is  a  wrong  greater  than 
that  of  the  counterfeiter,  who  merely  makes  and  passes 
counterfeit  money."  The  "advanced  stage"  is  the  mo- 
ment of  the  operation  wrhen  the  people  are  robbed  colos- 
sally,  rather  than  slenderly.  Dill,  who  interests  only  as 
a  type,  has  'earned'  immense  fees  by  steering  the  trust- 
creators  through  the  breakers  of  Law — teaching  the  rich 
how  to  break  laws  legally  and  elude  the  penalties.  Their 
boundless  profits  alone  prove  that  the  trusts  are  vast 
piratical  projectiles,  whose  owners,  directors  and  attor- 
neys are  grafters,  swept  with  the  craze  for  unearned 
money,  and  Dill  tells  us  himself  what  to  do  with  them. 
"We  have,"  he  says,  "to  learn  to  recognize  graft  and  the 
grafters,  however  respectable  their  disguise — and  to  pun- 
ish them,  not  alone  by  imprisonment  and  fine,  but  with 
all  the  might  of  the  terrible  scorn  of  society."  And  we 
ought  to  begin  with  Grafter  Dill  and  the  Bar  Associa- 


THE    AMERICAN    BRAIN  147 

tion,  who,  like  men  that  go  over  to  the  enemy  in  war, 
pawn  their  talents  to  the  rich  and  legally  pilot  their 
private  craft  for  pay.  Dill  has  that  rift  in  the  brain  which 
prevents  him  from  seeing  his  owrn  crimes.  He  can  see 
those  of  Depew,  Alexander,  McCall,  Hyde,  Schiff,  Frick, 
Astor,  and  the  other  Insurance  rogues,  for  he  says : 

"The  dummy  director  of  a  great  company  loho  dum- 
myizes  himself  for  paip,  whether  by  the  year  or  by  the 
job,  who  uses  his  position  to  control  the  use  and  dispo- 
sition of  other  people's  money  for  personal  gain,  is  in  no 
position  to  criticize  the  clerk  who  falsifies  his  accounts, 
or  the  employe  who  embezzles.  Yet  we  all  know  of 
instances  where  men  wrho  have  stolen  a  million  have  sent 
to  jail  employes  wrho  took  only  hundreds  or  thousands  of 
dollars."  "The  director  of  a  corporation  who  directs  the 
affairs  of  a  company  from  the  viewpoint  of  his  own 
pocket  rather  than  from  the  standpoint  of  the  stock- 
holders' interest,,  although  he  may  not  be  indicted  by  a 
grand  jury,,  is  none  the  less  a  social  highwayman." 

But  he  cannot  see  that  in  aiding  to  construct  engines 
of  robbery  he  is  pal  of  the  rogues,  himself  the  social 
highwaymen's  scullion  deserving  scorn  and  ostracism 
from  decent  men.  Dill  and  his  cronies  are  saved  from 
something  worse  than  ostracism  by  the  anatomy  of  his 
countrymen's  brairrs. 

The  national  brain  is  quiescent  while  the  Chief  Mag- 
istrate honors  a  minister  (Loomis,  in  Venezula)  whose 
acts  dishonored  his  country,  thus  glorifying  faithless- 
ness. The  same  magistrate  baptizes  his  former  naval 
secretary,  Paul  Morton,  a  flagrant  violator  of  law,  with 
antiseptics,  and  the  people  are  stolid,  as  a  bird  or  frog 
when  part  of  its  brain  has  been  excavated.  The  Santa 


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F6  Bailroad  long  flouted  the  anti-rebate  law  by  giving 
rebates  to  the  Colorado  Fuel  and  Iron  Company,  Morton 
being  a  vice-president  of  the  road  with  general  supervi- 
sion of  traffic.  It  "suited  the  company's  interest"  to  do  so, 
was  the  defiant  reply  of  the  Santa  F6  Traffic  Manager  to 
the  Interstate  Commerce  Commission.  The  Commission  se- 
cured an  injunction  against  the  railroad  and  Morton  and 
Bipley  broke  it.  Harmon  and  Judson,  special  counsel 
of  the  United  States,  advised  prosecution  of  the  law- 
breakers for  contempt  of  court,  when,  to  save  his  favor- 
ite, the  U.  S.  President  stepped  in  and  prevented  it. 
Judson  and  Harmon  resigned.  Morton,  purified  by  the 
glowing  encomia  of  the  President,  is  appointed  by  arch- 
monopolist  Eyan  to  rescue  the  Equitable  Life  from  fraud. 
The  President  said  we  must  proceed  against  corporations, 
not  their  individual  officers,  for  their  crimes. 

Alfonso  Sica  wras  a  member  of  a  company  of  six  boys 
engaged  in  violating  the  law  by  holding  up  a  man  for 
gain.  This  company  was  a  corporation,  only  lacking  the 
minor  element  of  being  legalized.  If  Sica  had  said  to 
the  Court,  "It  suited  my  company's  interest"  to  rob, 
Eoosevelt  must  have  instructed  the  Judge  to  drop  pro- 
ceedings against  Sica,  saying  to  Sica,  as  he  said  to  Mor- 
ten, "You  do  not  need  to  be  told  again  the  confidence 
I  have  in  you,"  and  must  have  directed  the  Judge  to 
prosecute  Sica's  hold-up  corporation,  but  not  the  indi- 
vidual Sica.  But  as  Sica  was  poor  his  responsibility 
was  personal  and  terrible,  and  he  went  to  penitentiary 
for  nearly  15  years,  while  his  fellow  criminal  Morton 
is  boosted  back  into  respectability  by  the  President  of 
Sica  and  the  country. 


THE    AMERICAN    BRAIN  149 

"Guilt  is  always  personal/7  said  Messrs.  Judson  and 
Harmon,  reading  the  derelict  President  his  duty;  "the 
great  corporations  cannot  be  imprisoned,"  and  the  offi- 
cials hide  behind  their  corporations.  k'It  was  their  duty 
[Morton's  and  Ripley's]  to  see  that  the  acts  forbidden 
were  not  done  as  well  as  not  to  do  them"  Messrs.  Jud- 
son and  Harmon  forgot  that  in  this  country  guilt  is  only 
personal  for  the  poor.  In  Boston  if  a  poor  man  stag- 
gers about  the  streets  drunk  the  police  arrest  him ;  rich 
sots  make  special  arrangements  with  the  policemen  to 
take  care  of  them  when  they  are  drunk,  to  hire  a  carriage 
and  see  them  home  and  prevent  their  arrest,  out  of  which 
the  police  make  fine  private  wealth.  Laboring  men  who 
transgress  injunctions  languish  in  jail,  while  rich  injunc- 
tion-smashers luxuriate  in  the  Senate,  Cabinet,  and 
ornate  nests  of  finance. 

The  President  easily  found  a  supple  Judge  to  affirm 
his  opinion  of  Morton,  as  the  supple  Attorney  General 
Moody  had  done.  Judge  Phillips  said :  "The  record  in 
the  case  [of  Morton  and  Eipley]  *  *  *  fails  to  fur- 
nish any  foundation  for  imputing  to  those  gentlemen 
any  personal  responsibility  for  the  alleged  violation  of 
the  Interstate  Commerce  Law."  Roosevelt,  Moody  and 
Phillips  have  herein  extinguished  personal  responsibility 
for  any  law-breaking  by  anybody,  and  the  American 
brain,  controlled  by  its  defective  anatomy,  submits.  Such 
a  decision  in  an  intelligent  country  would  cause  a  presi- 
dent's impeachment. 


CHAPTER  XVII. 

UNIQUE  CASES  OF  BRAIN  LACK. 

An  incident  which  shows  this  country's  brain  at  its 
worst  was  the  inbreak  of  an  American  president  on  the 
Russo-Japanese  war.  The  high  hope  of  every  intelligent 
man  in  the  world  was  the  abolition  of  the  Russian  Au- 
tocracy of  curs.  It  was  about  to  be  realized.  The  Japan- 
ese were  the  agents,  by  smashing  the  prestige  of  the  Rus- 
sian Government  and  turning  its  masses  against  it.  One 
more  victory  in  the  East  wras  needed  to  complete  the  work 
and  all  was  ready  for  that  victory.  It  would  have  leveled 
the  way  to  human  liberty  in  that  vast  empire;  shorn 
of  strength  the  blasting  Bureaucracy  would  have  fallen 
helplessly  before  the  people's  revolution.  It  would  have 
been  a  sublime  blow  at  tyrants  not  there  alone,  but 
throughout  mankind.  Then  Mr.  Theodore  Roosevelt 
stepped  in  to  mix  and  spoil  all. 

What  a  mind  he  must  have  not  to  see  the  world- wrong 
he  was  doing!  He  has  a  mind  either  childish  or  choked 
\vith  the  fogs  of  personal  ambition.  All  the  infamies  of 
Russia  might  go  on  if  he  could  draw  the  world's  atten- 
tion and  silly  plaudits  to  himself.  He  succeeded  in  that 
— and  sacrificed  the  respect  of  the  future  for  him.  He 
will  go  down  to  history  as  the  pillar  and  savior  of  the 
worst  tyranny  of  modern  ages. 

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UNIQUE    BRAIN    DEFECTS  151 

It  was  a  grand  chance  to  practise  on  the  littleness 
of  mankind  for  a  cheap  gallery  glory  and  it  was  too 
much  for  his  strength  of  mind.  To  the  shallow,  ending 
a  war  would  seem  like  noble  benevolence:  they  would 
not  look  beyond  to  see  that  it  was  the  restoration  of  the 
ax  to  the  Russian  Government's  butcher  hands.  If  the 
common  Russian  millions  went  down  later  under  this 
ax,  what  mattered  it  if  Roosevelt  had  gained  the  spec- 
tacular honor  of  ending  a  war?  It  is  a  terrible  thing 
for  men  of  opposite  nations  to  go  on  killing  each  other 
too  long:  it  is  not  terrible  for  a  bloody  home  government 
to  butcher  its  subjects  forever,  to  keep  its  job  of  ruling 
them.  No  outsider  thinks  of  interfering  with  that,  be- 
cause it  is  the  established  morality  of  governments.  The 
Butcher  Morality. 

So  the  elected  head  of  this  free  people,  so-called, 
blundered  in,  without  hearing  the  will  of  the  people  on 
the  subject.  And  he  turned  the  forces  of  massacre  from 
Asia  to  Russia.  Progress  was  being  accomplished  by 
the  killing  in  Asia,  by  stopping  it  the  killing  was  resumed 
in  Russia  to  exterminate  progress.  The  American  people 
participate  in  this  shame.  They  did  not  rise  in  indigna- 
tion and  prevent  the  senseless  act. 

1  shall  do  this  president  all  justice.  If  he  had  shown 
himself  a  lover  of  peace  before,  it  would  weigh  in  his 
favor.  But  his  pet  plaything  is  the  big  stick.  He  has 
tooted  the  horn  of  war.  A  child  man  on  this  subject,  he 
copies  Billy  the  German,  crying  up  Might  and  Force. 
He  campaigned  for  the  vice-presidency,  it  will  be  re- 
membered, with  his  Spanish  war  toggery  on,  appealing 
with  claptrap  to  the  hellish  instincts  of  war.  He  con- 
tinually eggs  this  nation  on  to  follow  the  accursed 


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example  of  Europe  and  increase  the  military  that  we 
may  be  better  prepared  to  bully  and  to  seize  what  is  not 
ours.  Wealth  sunk  in  the  machinery  of  war  is  wealth 
stolen  from  the  evolution  of  man.  Roosevelt  ever  pleads 
to  pile  up  the  tools  of  war.  Vanity  was  therefore  his 
impulse  in  interference;  that  weak  vain-glory  which  in- 
evitably masters  common  men  when  they  are  given 
power.  The  Russian  ruling  curs  to  save  their  job  of  rul- 
ing, blotted  out,  fighting  the  Japanese,  $1,050,000,000 
worth  of  wealth,  rightful  sinew  of  the  Russian  people's 
growth.  And  Roosevelt  plucked  these  curs  out  of  anni- 
hilation to  continue  devastating. 

He  had  his  reward.  "Titled  delegates  praise  his 
work"  at  the  Brussels  Interparliamentary  Congress, 
said  the  blushing  American  press.  The  Congress  sent 
aits  profound  thanks  for  your  noble  efforts  in  the  inter- 
ests of  humanity  to  terminate  the  Russo-Japanese  war" 
— a  work  that  will  rank  among  the  first  of  those  fatal  to 
humanity.  King  Leopold,  famed  for  Congo  atrocities, 
told  the  delegates  that  he  kept  a  signed  photograph  of 
our  president  on  his  study  table.  Henry  Watterson,  the 
Louisville  editor,  blessed  the  president  with  the  title  of 
Messiah,  and  said  "Theodore  Roosevelt  stands  forth  a 
very  archangel  of  peace,  bringing  upon  himself  and  his 
country  glory  unspeakable."  American  editors  elected 
him  the  most  popular  man  in  the  world. 

It  is  now  January  and  we  can  witness  in  Russia  the 
peace  which  the  presidential  irruption  brought.  Revolu- 
tion failed,  and  the  Cossack  savages  mowed  down  the 
people  with  machine  guns  to  defend  the  brutal  Autoc- 
racy, to  which  America  gave  new  birth.  If  the  revo- 
lution shall  hereafter  succeed  it  will  be  at  an  added  need- 
less cost  unspeakable. 


UNIQUE    BRAIN    DEFECTS  153 

The  resurrection  of  the  Autocracy  gave  it  strength  to 
light  a  counter-revolution,  the  first  act  of  which  was  the 
awfulest  slaughter  of  Jews  that  the  world  has  seen.  All 
nations  stood  around,  hands  in  pockets,  and  watched 
this  massacre  proceed.  To  stop  this  infamy  no  nation 
had  precedent  or  authority.  It  would  have  been  inter- 
fering with  the  divine  right  of  Governments  to  slay 
their  subjects  to  keep  their  job  of  ruling.  If  the  senti- 
ment were  allowed  that  one  government  might  not 
slaughter  its  people  ad  libitum  to  keep  them  under  its 
heel,  the  heresy  might  get  abroad  that  no  government 
has  that  right. 

Through  Secretary  Root  our  president  was  besought 
to  act,  and  here  was  the  reply :  that  "the  present  is  not 
a  favorable  time  for  intervention  or  representations  by 
the  United  States,  and  that  any  action  at  this  time 
would  be  inopportune  and  unavailing."  (Dec.  5,  '05.) 
Vain-glory  paused  when  the  time  came  for  doing  some- 
thing not  stagey  but  vital. 

What  was  the  nature  of  this  Jewish  massacre,  which 
directly  resulted  from  American  intervention?  In 
Odessa  the  demoniac  mob  poured  kerosene  on  the  sick 
Jews  hiding  in  cellars  and  set  them  on  fire,  burning 
them  to  death ;  they  battered  the  skulls  of  the  dead  with 
hammers,  gouged  out  eyes,  cut  off  ears,  and  drove  nails 
into  bodies.  They  cut  up  babies  and  threw  the  pieces 
at  their  living  mothers.  In  one  suburb  more  than  300 
children  of  both  sexes  were  horribly  gashed  about  the 
aead  and  shoulders. 

The  saved  Bureaucracy  caused  it.  "Indisputable 
evidence  accumulates,"  says  the  report,  "that,  following 
the  Czar's  proclamation  on  Tuesday,  the  desperate  bu- 


154  MARRIAGE    AND    RACE    DEATH 

reaucracy  inspired  the  massacre  with  the  object  of  con- 
vincing the  Czar  that  only  force  could  suppress  the  in- 
surrection. Police  and  soldiers  everywhere  marched  at 
the  head  of  inobs,  exciting  them  to  destroy  the  Jews  by 
crying  'The  Jews  have  killed  our  Emperor!'  and  like 
provocations  to  murder.  The  police  prevented  any  one 
from  arresting  the  looters  and  prevented  also  the  Red 
Cross  workers  from  aiding  the  wounded,  actually  firing 
upon  those  engaged  in  this  work."  A  Jewish  militia 
"shot  and  killed  four  detectives,  who,  disguised,  were 
provoking  attacks  on  the  Jews." 

Now,  were  the  Jews  massacred  by  direct  instigation 
of  the  Bureaucracy,  which  Mr.  Roosevelt  championed 
and  restored  to  power? 

Sholom  Aleicheni,  a  Yiddish  author,  wrote  several 
letters  to  the  Jewish  Daily  New^s  of  New7  York  from 
the  masacre  districts  at  the  time  the  butcheries  were  in 
progress.  These  letters  say:  "On  the  20th  [October] 
Count  Haden,  an  attache  of  the  Imperial  Court,  arrived 
[in  Kieff]  by  rail.  When  he  saw  that  the  police  did 
nothing  to  protect  the  victims  he  demanded  that  General 
Koras  give  him  fifty  Cossacks,  and  these  sufficed  to 
save  all  the  Jews.  Then  he  telegraphed  to  Witte,  and  at 
night  Trepoff  sent  a  message  that  the  riots  should  cease. 
Immediately  order  loas  restored"  "The  common  people 
were  slaughtered  like  sheep.  The  thing  the  police  were 
after  was  money.  When  any  one  appealed  to  the  officers 
they  answered :  'You  wanted  liberty,  here's  your  lib- 
erty!5 When  the  Constitution  was  announced  Trepoff 
purposely  distributed  extra  charges  of  ammunition.  In 
the  Douma  they  said  it  served  the  Jews  right  for  wanting 
liberty."  In  Neizhin,  near  Kieff,  the  Jews  were  rejoicing 


UNIQUE    BRAIN    DEFECTS  155 

in  the  granting  of  the  Constitution.  uThen  conies  a 
counter-manifestation  of  police,  Cossacks,  Government 
officers,  and  hooligans,  and  Jewish  property  is  robbed 
and  destroyed  and  Jewish  blood  is  shed.  The  Chief  of 
Police  called  together  the  people  in  the  public  square 
to  swear  fealty  to  the  Czar,  and  meanwhile  he  sent  hooli- 
gans to  destroy  the  Jewish  homes." 

In  the  suburbs  of  Odessa,  "where  most  of  the  Jews 
live,  the  police,  dressed  in  civilian  clothes,  were  mas- 
sacring the  Jews.  They  went  with  national  flags  and 
singing  national  songs.  The  church  bells  were  ringing 
to  rouse  the  hooligans.  When  the  Jews  tried  to  defend 
themselves  they  were  attacked  by  the  Cossacks  and  artil- 
lery. Jewish  girls  were  dishonored,  children  were  rent 
in  twain.  A  Christian  bears  witness  that  when  the  hooli- 
gans caught  a  Jew  they  delivered  him  to  the  Cossacks 
and  the  latter  shot  him.  In  the  hospitals  lie  many  Jewrs 
without  fingers.  In  Moldavanka  the  Cossacks  entered  a 
house  and  said  they  were  going  to  shoot  all  the  family, 
but  gave  them  the  privilege  of  choosing  among  them- 
selves wrho  should  be  the  first  victim.  The  poor  people 
contended,  each  to  be  shot  first.  The  Cossacks  com- 
pelled a  father  to  put  on  his  "t-alith"  and  pray  while 
trampling  on  the  corpse  of  his  son.  A  child  had  seen 
its  parents  killed  and  now  has  gone  mad.  Entire  fam- 
ilies were  annihilated  by  the  Cossacks  and  police.  The 
press  has  proofs  of  the  police  organization  for  the  mas- 
sacres. Many  people  have  seen  the  civil  clothes  brought 
the  police  for  disguise." 

This  is  the  direct  work  of  the  Bureaucracy  which 
Theod.  Roosevelt,  spurred  by  foolish  juvenile  ambition, 
saved.  A  despatch  to  the  London  Times  late  in  Decem- 


156  MARRIAGE    AND    RACE    DEATH 

ber  said:  "Gen.  Kourloff,  Governor  of  Minsk,  who 
organized  the  massacre  after  the  Czar's  proclamation  of 
Oct.  30,  declares,  according  to  the  Novosti,  that  he  acted 
under  orders.  He  says  he  icill  produce  documentary  evi- 
dence before  the  courts  if  he  is  tried" 

Lastly  in  corroboration  we  have  the  report  of  the 
commission  which  journeyed  over  Russia  to  organize  the 
distribution  of  the  relief  funds,  and  dated  Jan.  8.  It 
declares  that  the  Russian  outrages  upon  the  Jews  were 
officially  approved.  "They  broke  out  in  301  places  on  the 
same  day  and  practically  the  same  hour,  notwithstanding 
the  great  distances  between  some  of  them,  showing  that 
some  master  minds  must  have  directed  and  organized 
the  movement;"  and  "in  nearly  every  instance  the  out- 
rages began  with  the  connivance  and  assistance  of  the 
police,  who  in  a  large  number  of  cases  participated  in 
the  plunder  and  murder.  Whenever  a  Jew  attempted  to 
defend  himself  his  dwelling  house  or  place  of  business 
was  immediately  fired  at  and  he  was  treated  as  a  revolu- 
tionary." 

The  low  constitution  of  the  American  brain  is  thus 
demonstrated  by  the  light  and  reckless  leadership  to 
which  it  subjects  itself.  The  presidential  power  to  plunge 
in  internationally  without  direct  popular  sanction  should 
be  withdrawn.  To  obtain  a  higher  type  of  presidents, 
nominating  conventions  should  be  abolished  and  the 
people  by  direct  vote  should  select  their  presidential 
nominees. 

Still  more .  important,  the  world's  common  people 
should  internationally  combine  in  a  new  world-govern- 
ment I  do  not  refer  to  a  Hague  Tribunal  or  a  Federal 
World  Parliament  of  existing  States.  All  present  govern- 


UNIQUE    BRAIN    DEFECTS  157 

ments  are  merely  private  Commercial  Corporations, 
securing  the  rule  of  the  small  wealth-confederacy.  Their 
sovereignty  for  the  common  people  is  not  above  that 
of  a  king.  To  meet  this  commercial  world-monarchy  the 
earth's  common  people  should  organize  a  world  nation 
above  the  heads  of  kings  and  the  dollar  parliaments 
and  later  abolish  them.  Civilized  peoples  are  ripe  for 
this  action.  All  questions  of  world  good  would  be  brought 
before  this  Supreme  Court  of  Mankind.  The  little 
parochial  nation  and  class  interests  which  now  bedevil 
men  would  sink  away  before  the  world  view.  The  work- 
ing principles  of  a  People's  World  Nation  can  be  evolved 
by  conventions,  congresses  and  preliminary  societies. 

Commercial  governments  are  impotent  for  human  de- 
velopment, being  merely  selfish  traditions  materialized. 
I  deny  them  the  dignity  of  containing  ideas.  While  the 
Russian  Jews  are  butchered  each  government  gapes,  help- 
less, indifferent,  or  speculating  how  to  make  private 
capital  out  of  the  horror.  A  people's  world  nation  would 
have  intervened  before  the  butchery  and  prevented  it. 
The  degeneracy  of  the  Russian  autocracy  has  long  been 
a  scandal,  and  had  there  been  a  world  people  to  back 
the  higher  Russians  it  would  have  been  destroyed. 

If  we  properly  name  the  debauched  ruling  classes 
of  that  country  we  must  call  them  a  Cur  Aristocracy. 
But  every  country  has  the  same  element.  What  could 
better  expose  the  American  Cur  Aristocracy  than  H.  H. 
Rogers  of  the  Standard  wiping  his  feet  on  American 
laws  and  institutions? 

Another  phase  of  the  Jewish  problem  reveals  the  pres- 
ent-day brain.  Surgery  can  remove  the  vital  organs  and 
plant  them  back  in  the  body  in  new  positions  (for  exam- 


158  MARRIAGE    AND    RACE    DEATH 

pie,  putting  the  heart  of  a  dog  up  in  its  neck),  derang- 
ing or  twisting  the  order  of  nature,  and  the  organs  will 
go  on  digesting,  beating,  and  doing  their  various  duties. 
Nature  herself,  in  evolving  man,  seems  to  have  done  this 
deranging  in  his  brain  so  that  unbelievably  twisted  ideas 
issue  from  that  machine.  Christians  borrowed  from  the 
Jews  their  God,  their  Christ,  their  Holy  Ghost;  their 
whole  religion  and  most  of  their  morality;  the  founda- 
tions of  their  belief  in  a  future  life,  their  theory  of  sins 
and  their  hope  of  being  forgiven;  their  most  revered 
heroes  and  exemplars  are  Jews;  all  the  eloquence  of 
countless  pulpits  rehearses  the  deeds  and  words  of  Jews ; 
carloads  of  wrealth  are  consumed  by  Christians  every 
Sunday  in  spreading  and  repeating  the  thoughts  and 
doctrines  of  Jews.  Yet  the  Jew  is  to  Christians  in  most 
of  the  world  a  despised  and  dishonored  race;  dead  Jews 
are  worshipped  and  live  Jews  are  hated  and  killed.  A 
world  amalgamation  of  the  common  people  with  all  kings 
and  commercial  potentates  cut  out  would  amend  this 
anachronism. 

Of  three  or  four  of  the  greatest  human  issues  one  is 
the  preservation  of  men  and  women  from  going  wrong 
with  their  sexual  instincts.  Nature  has  made  sex  much 
of  man.  To  go  right  he  must  be  scientifically  trained 
in  sex,  beginning  in  the  earliest  childhood.  The  Ameri- 
can brain  has  excluded  this  tremendous  subject  from 
human  affairs.  Children  are  left  to  grow  up  sexually 
wild  like  cats.  Instinct  rescues  cats,  but  in  man  igno- 
rant instinct  destroys.  Nothing  bespeaks  the  pigmyism 
of  man's  brain  more  than  his  cowardly  evasion  of  science 
in  sex.  This  is  considered  in  another  volume. 


UNIQUE    BRAIN    DEFECTS  159 

The  brain  of  the  people  is  as  yet  like  that  of  a  coun- 
tryman who  has  never  seen  the  city  and  comes  up  to  be 
fleeced.  It  is  open  to  the  purchase  of  every  gold  brick. 
If  a  bunco  steerer  arises  in  religion  or  politics  and  says : 
"I  will  save  you,"  it  follows  him.  Can  you,  reader,  for 
a  moment  lay  aside  prejudice  for  or  against  and  examine 
a  phenomenon  as  if  it  were  a  fly  under  the  microscope? 
Let  the  phenomenon,  for  example,  be  the  Hearst  system 
of  newspapers.  They  offer  themselves  with  their  pro- 
prietor as  a  means  of  public  salvation.  The  microscope 
will  show  that  the  last  or  seventh  page  of  each  sheet 
has  an  editorial  by  Arthur  Brisbane,  or  someone,  which 
is  often  of  high  character,  but  it  will  find  that  the  other 
pages  are  lush  with  grossness,  sensation,  brutality, 
debauching  incitements,  and  brazen  lies.  This  any  en- 
thusiastic admirer  of  Hearst's  ethical  seventh  page  will, 
if  intelligent,  sadly  admit.  Prize  fights,  scandals,  mur- 
ders and  a  vulgar  reverential  flaunting  of  rich  people 
are  the  principal  daily  pabulum  of  the  first  six  or  more 
pages.  The  six  pages  corrupt  and  the  seventh  page  saves. 

In  broad  black  headlines  the  Boston  American  said 
on  December  16th,  "200  on  train  buried  in  tunnel."  The 
news  was  from  Chattanooga.  Next  day  there  was  a 
small  paragraph  headed :  "Says  nobody  was  hurt  in  land- 
slide," and  stating  that  no  tunnel  had  caved  in.  The 
hanging  of  Mary  Rogers  in  Vermont  filled  whole  sheets 
of  the  American  for  days.  All  details  actual,  pervertible 
and  inventable  were  used — pictures  of  her  in  all  postures, 
of  her  hanging,  of  her  corpse  under  a  sheet,  of  a  "noose 
like  that  used  to  hang"  her.  Here  are  the  massive  head- 
lines and  paragraphs  in  the  American  of  December  8th : 
"Horror  scene  at  hanging.  Mrs.  Rogers  was  slowly 


160  MARRIAGE    AND    RACE    DEATH 

STRANGLED  AS  2  MEN  HELD  ROPE.  Feet  of  woman  touched 
floor  as  she  fell  through  trap,  and  deputy  sheriffs  held 
rope  in  hands,  lifting  body  clear  until  life  was  extinct." 
"In  the  convulsion  of  death  the  black-shrouded  figure 
struggled  for  thirteen  minutes  while  the  two  men  held  up 
the  rope  from  over  her  head."  "It  was  a  scene  of  horror 
unprecedented  in  hanging  so  far  as  New  England  is 
concerned.  Those  who  gazed  in  a  dazed  way  at  the  trag- 
edy that  was  taking  place  before  their  eyes  went  white 
while  beads  of  perspiration  sprang  to  their  faces."  "At 
the  side  of  Mrs.  Eogers  when  the  fatal  trap  was  sprung 
were  Deputy  Sheriffs  Bond  and  Tinkham.  The  body 
dropped  through  the  opening  on  the  platform,  but  to  the 
consternation  of  the  officials  the  feet  of  the  victim  struck 
the  floor.  There  was  fear  that  if  the  woman  were  left 
in  this  position  that  she  would  not  die — or,  if  so,  only 
after  a  prolonged  and  agonizing  strangulation.  Deputies 
finish  the  work.  Bond  and  Tinkham  leaped  forward, 
grasped  the  rope  just  above  the  hooded  head  of  the  vic- 
tim and  pulled  up  on  it  until  her  feet  were  raised  from 
the  floor.  In  this  way  they  held  her  until  the  doctor 
said  she  was  dead.  Then  the  two  men,  who  were  in  a 
fever  heat  because  of  the  unexpected  part  they  had  been 
called  upon  to  play  in  the  woman's  death,  slackened  their 
hold  and  the  body  lowered  until  the  feet  rested  squarely 
upon  the  floor,  the  noose  holding  the  body  in  a  slightly 
stooping  position." 

Upon  examining  these  statements  under  the  glass  it 
appears  that  they  were  all  invented  by  the  Hearst  papers. 
The  woman's  feet  did  not  touch  the  floor,  no  deputies 
held  her  up.  I  wrote  to  Vermont  authorities  asking 
about  these  newspaper  statements,  and  received  the  reply 
that  they  were  lies  through  and  through. 


UNIQUE    BRAIN    DEFECTS  161 

The  Hearst  method  is  to  corrupt  the  public  to  sell  the 
iper.  But  his  defenders  say,  "The  corruption  of  the 
six  pages  causes  people  to  read  the  seventh,  and  then  they 
are  saved."  I  don't  see  that  one  page  can  uncorrupt  the 
contamination  of  six.  Many  of  Hearst's  six-page  scholars 
never  read  Brisbane's  seventh-page  homily.  Besides,  the 
six  pages  go  dead  against  the  principles  of  the  seventh 
and  Brisbane  is  rolling  stones  up  a  hill.  While  he  was 
lashing  rich  New  York  toadies  to  Battenberg,  which 
meant  J.  P.  Morgan  and  such  rich  flunkies,  the  first  page 
of  the  same  issue  had  a  broad  snapshot  photograph  of 
the  great  man  and  his  wife  with  these  fawning  reverential 
words  underneath:  "This  snapshot  of  the  financier  is 
one  of  the  best  ever  taken,  and  shows  him  as  he  really 
is.  It  was  taken  as  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Morgan  were  leaving 
for  General  Grant's  luncheon  to  Prince  Louis  of  Batten- 
berg  on  Governor's  Island." 

Suppose  a  clergyman  were  to  open  a  combined  brothel, 
gin  palace,  and  gambling  hell  adjoining  his  chruch  and 
entice  the  public  in  six  days  in  the  week  to  be  entertained, 
in  order  that  he  might  imbue  them  with  an  interest  in 
religion.  On  the  seventh  or  Sabbath  day,  laying  off  his 
bartending  suit  and  tights  and  opening  a  passage  into 
the  church,  in  a  black  clerical  robe  he  preaches  to  all 
who  heed  his  summons  of  the  beauty  of  holiness,  the  sin 
of  getting  drunk,  debauching,  and  robbing  your  fellow- 
men.  His  reply  to  critics  of  his  "method"  is  that  the 
common  people  won't  attend  church  without  the  allure- 
ments of  gambling,  gin  and  prostitutes,  and  that  he 
offers  them  these  harmless  things  to  save  them.  This 
is  Hearst's  answer  to  critics.  For  six  days  in  the  week 
or  pages  of  his  papers  he  conducts  his  hearers  through 


182  MARRIAGE    AND    RACE    DEATH 

all  the  gaudy  avenues  of  corruption  his  army  of  writers 
can  sewer  up  or  invent,  and  on  the  seventh  he  throws 
wide  some  folding  doors  and  introduces  them  to  Arthur 
Brisbane,  who  in  respectable  language  reads  them  a  ser- 
mon from  the  editorial  pulpit  on  public  ownership,  the 
corruption  of  the  rich,  and  the  sin  of  drink. 

Looking  at  the  matter  dispassionately  and  recogniz- 
ing the  excellent  worth  of  Brisbane's  essays,  it  seems  to 
me  that  the  pails  of  poison  swallowed  stay  in  the  people's 
system  and  that  the  corruption  with  which  these  papers 
are  saturating  their  readers  will  harden  as  a  wall  against 
progress  and  decency  in  the  future.  The  Brisbane  anti- 
dote may  give  the  corrupted  a  certain  political  vent,  but 
what  corrupt  people  do  is  usually  corrupt  and  corruptly 
done.  You  can  decide  for  yourself  whether  you  think 
Hearst  truly  interested  in  the  people's  welfare  when  he 
uses  these  debauchery  devices.  But  he  is  nominated  for 
office  as  a  deliverer,  he  can  hire  an  army  of  men  with 
brains  to  write  his  papers  and  sing  his  praises,  and  he 
can  enlist  lieutenants  to  bolster  him  up  who  are  certain 
that  they  respect  themselves. 

This  phenomenon  gives  another  clue  to  the  inner  form 
of  the  general  brain.  But  why  is  it  that  men  who  detest 
the  Hearst  method  do  not  express  their  detestation,  scorn 
alliance  with  him,  and  quarantine  his  influence?  Why 
do  they  not  start  a  paper  that  can  be  decent  and  make 
Brisbane  its  editor?  Because  people  who  ought  to  be 
stronger  fear  to  say  what  they  think  of  Hearst  in  dread 
of  the  power  of  his  chain  of  papers.  It  is  the  cowardice 
of  men  who  want  to  be  advertised.  He  can  combat  them, 
vilify  them,  ignore  them,  and  attempt  to  suppress  them. 
He  gains  this  power  not  from  himself,  but  from  the 


UNIQUE    BRAIN    DEFECTS  163 

millions  lie  inherited.  With  these  he  buys  brains  which 
boom  him  for  office  through  his  own  sheets.  His  power 
is  not  brain  or  character  power,  but  bought  power.  When 
Capitalism  is  abolished  no  man  will  have  a  power  not 
in  himself;  no  man  will  be  able  to  buy  other  men's  brains 
with  money  and  have  those  brains  stand  as  his  own. 

We  return  from  these  various  incidents  to  the  nature 
of  the  general  brain  which  tolerates  them.  The  fact  that 
we  must  state  is  this:  Man  has  not  yet  come  into  pos- 
session of  the  use  of  his  'brain.  Man's  brain  works  by 
the  same  laws  of  tmintelligence  as  the  animal's  brain. 
What,  then,  is  the  biological  difference  between  the  two? 
It  is  man's  boast  that  he  has  a  mind — the  animals  do 
not  make  this  boast.  In  intrinsic  fact,  however,  animals 
and  man  act  equally  stupidly,  are  identical,  except  in 
man's  empty  brag. 

Mr.  Dicey  thus  gives  his  sense  of  man's  competence : 
"All  men  hate  trouble,  and  the  discovery  of  truth  or 
the  detection  of  error  involves  a  laborious  process  of 
thought,  whilst  few  are  the  men  to  whom  the  attain- 
ment of  truth  is  an  object  of  keen  desire."  This  is  why 
it  is  a  law  that  The  Frauds  and  Shams  rule  mankind. 
The  human  kingdom  remains  wholly  to  be  conquered. 
And  the  principal  wall  which  shuts  man  up  in  the  ani- 
mal kingdom  is  simple  cowardice.  Everywhere  in  life 
the  following  from  Turgenief  is  the  key : 

"Once  upon  a  time  there  was  a  blockhead. 

"For  a  long  time  he  lived  happy  and  content,  until  at 
last  a  report  reached  him  that  everybody  considered  him 
a  brainless  fool. 

"This  roused  the  blockhead  and  made  him  sorrowful. 


164  MARRIAGE    AND    RACE    DEATH 

He  considered  what  would  be  the  best  way  to  confute 
this  statement.  Suddenly  an  idea  burst  upon  his 
wretched  mind,  and  without  delay  he  put  it  into  execu- 
tion. 

"One  day  an  acquaintance  met  him  in  the  street  and 
began  to  praise  a  celebrated  painter. 

"  'Good  God !'  cried  the  blockhead,  'do  you  not  know 
that  this  man's  works  have  long  since  been  banished  to 
the  lumber  room?  You  must  be  aware  of  the  fact.  You 
are  far  behindhand  in  culture.' 

"The  friend  was  alarmed  and  immediately  concurred 
with  the  blockhead's  opinion." 

This  went  on  until  he  had  made  everybody  afraid  of 
him. 

"And  now,  he,  the  former  enemy  of  every  authority, 
is  himself  an  authority,  and  the  rising  generation  show 
him  respect,  and  tremble  before  him. 

"And  how  can  the  poor  youths  do  otherwise?  Cer- 
tainly, to  show  him  respect  is  an  astonishing  notion ;  but 
woe  to  you,  if  you  would  take  his  measure,  or  try  to 
make  him  appear  as  he  really  was,  you  would  imme- 
diately be  criticised  without  mercy. 

"Blockheads  have  a  brilliant  life  amongst  cowards." 


CHAPTER  XVIII. 

TOADYISM  OF  THE  AMERICAN  BRAIN. 

This  chapter  could  be  filled  with  endless  proofs  of 
American  toadying.  As  a  brain  index  we  may  inspect 
the  people  licking  the  feet  of  the  wealthy.  The  news- 
papers give  the  population  what  they  love  and  so  mirror 
national  character:  let  us  gather  a  crop  of  them  and 
cite  a  few  of  their  regular  headings : 

"Millionaire  wills  body  to  surgeon."  "Rich  man  killed 
in  auto  wreck.''  "Richest  bachelor  gives  a  musicale." 
"Rockefeller  takes  a  plant  to  church."  "Friend  of 
Vanderbilts  is  voluntary  bankrupt."  "Millionaire  defies 
black  hand."  "Wealthy  man  weds  his  first  wife's  servant. 
Bride  has  served  as  maid  in  his  house."  "Rockefeller's 

love  to  newsboys."  "Miss  's  wedding  on  Feb. 

14.  Her  congressional  Fianc6,  Harvard,  '91,  and  heir 
to  $300,000."  "Millionaire  works  as  laboring  hand." 
"Wealthy  man  missing  from  Hotel  Seville."  "Rich  man 
victim  of  blackmailers."  "Heir  to  f  40',000,000  expires  in 
hospital,"  etc.  "Daughter  of  rich  man  dies  for  love." 
"Indian  millionaire  on  Carlisle  football  team."  "Daugh- 
ter of  the  multi-millionaire,  etc."  "Rich  girls'  hockey 
team  tied  in  first  game."  "Mrs.  Pedro  F.  Francke  suing 
for  a  divorce.  She  is  a  cousin  of  Mrs.  Reginald  C. 
Vanderbilt"  [which  makes  a  somebody  of  her] . 

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166  MARRIAGE    AND    RACE    DEATH 

"Millionaire  reformer  arrested  for  libel."  "Dr. 
M'Ewan  to  wed  his  stenographer.  Pastor  of  the  wealthy 
Thaw  family  in  Pittsburg  to  wed  his  stenographer." 
"Greenwich  polite  to  its  rich  men."  "To  unite  three 
Baptist  churches.  Plan  consolidation  of  Fifth  Avenue, 
which  Mr.  Rockefeller  attends"  etc.,  "three-fourths  of 
the  new  factor  being  the  Fifth  Avenue  Church,  which  has 
the  reputation  of  being  the  weathiest  of  its  denomination 
in  the  city,  in  addition  to  boasting  the  membership  of 
John  D.  Rockefeller."  (N.  Y.  Herald.) 

The  N.  Y.  World  writes  exquisitely  of  a  Gould : 

"Daughter  of  wealth  attends  day  school."  "Before 
this  she  has  studied  with  three  governesses  and  one  tutor 
in  [her  home].  It  is  unusual  for  a  daughter  of  parents 
so  enormously  rich  to  attend  day  school,  but  Marjorie 
goes  at  her  mother's  command."  Marjorie  drives  "in  her 
jaunty  cart"  to  school.  "Marjorie  is  best  in  the  Ian- 
guages."  "She  is  seen  often  with  many  volumes  strapped 
together,  although  the  footman  usually  carries  them. 
Marjorie  is  very  tall — "  "Mrs.  Gould  does  not  allow  her 
children  to  become  wearied  of  luxury." 

"President's  cousins  thrown  in  runaway."  (Of  no 
importance  in  themselves.)  "Richest  subject  of  Menelik 
here."  "Miss  Gould  visits  the  evangelist  tents.  Kisses 
a  little  singer."  "Faithful  servant  honored  in  death. 
Wealthy  lawyer's  family  dons  mourning  and  prepares  for 
impressive  funeral."  Roosevelt  has  a  son  who  is  freshman 
in  Harvard.  Bostonians  thronged  to  Cambridge  for  a  view 
of  his  room,  his  bed,  his  shoes,  or  any  other  holy  relic, 
until  Harvard  education  was  impeded  and  the  privilege 
disallowed.  A  Boston  wallpaper  firm  stocked  its  window 


TOADYISM    OF    THE    AMERICAN    BRAIN  167 

with  paper,  proclaiming  that  Freshman  Roosevelt  had 
this  kind  on  his  wall. 

The  press  and  public  attitude  toward  the  marriage  of 
"Miss  Alice"  show  the  people  advancing  toward  kingship 
— outdoing  foreign  dirt-eaters  in  grovelling.  A  New  York 
daily  thus  boomed  its  Sunday  edition:  "Miss  Alice 
Roosevelt  when  she  was  a  little  tot — an  exquisite  photo- 
graph that  everybody  will  want  to  preserve  among  other 
souvenirs  of  the  approaching  wedding  of  the  President's 
daughter  to  Mr.  Longworth,  of  whom  the  Pictorial  Sec- 
tion also  contains  an  admirable  picture."  Mr.  Long- 
worth,  whose  picture  is  so  necessary  to  us,  entered 
politics  in  Cincinnati  as  a  lieutenant  of  the  notorious 
Boss  Cox,  and  doubtless  owes  his  seat  in  Congress  to 
doing  that  reprobate's  bidding.  I  will  not  nauseate  the 
reader  with  more  of  the  wedding  episodes. 

If  these  things  shame  and  disgust,  we  can  turn  to  the 
presidents  of  the  universities  as  the  fountain  head  of  the 
toadyism  in  education  with  which  all  but  the  strongest 
undergraduates  as  well  as  the  college- worshipping  public 
are  filled.  At  the  annual  dinner  of  the  New  York 
Chamber  of  Commerce  this  year  President  Edwin 
A.  Alderman  of  the  University  of  Virginia  gave  the 
address:  "I,  therefore,"  said  he,  "do  not  think  of 
you  this  evening  as  great  magnates,  or  as  the  'beaked 
and  taloned  graspers  of  the  world/  as  someone  has  gently 
called  you,  but  as  my  fellow  craftsmen,  as  plain,  extra- 
ordinary men,  whose  proudest  fortune  is  the  legacy  of 
American  opportunity  and  citizenship,  and  whose  proud- 
est achievement  will  be  to  hand  down  that  inheritance 
untarnished  and  undiminished."  This  is  toadyism. 


168  MARRIAGE    AND    RACE    DEATH 

Carroll  D.  Wright,  president  of  Clark  College,  says : 
"I  do  not  find  that  McCurdy  or  McCall  and  other  men 
in  the  insurance  investigation  were  dishonest."*  This 
form  of  odorous  sycophancy  is  like  saying  that  Jay 
Gould  and  Boss  Tweed  were  honest  men  and  good  citi- 
zens, and  its  crudity  serves  to  make  the  college  presi- 
dent an  open  scandal. 

From  this  rude  workmanship  President  Eliot  of 
Harvard  distinguishes  himself  as  a  scientific  apologist 
of  the  rich.  To  understand  him  one  must  consider  the 
expense  of  carrying  on  Harvard.  It  is  a  great  play- 
shop  and  workshop  which  produces  no  wealth,  and  the 
bills  must  be  paid  by  gifts.  Since  the  rich  have  taken 
most  wealth  the  average  American  has  no  longer  money 
to  give,  and  the  college  presidents7  problem  and  mission 
are  to  stroke  and  flatter  the  rich  into  opening  their 
bags  of  gold.  The  subtlest  artist  of  adulation  is  there- 
fore the  best  college  president.  By  natural  selection 
the  poor  strokers  fall  out  of  the  positions,  and  those 
with  a  fine  nose  for  the  rich  man's  dollar  remain.  The 
good  college  head  must  be  a  commercialist  in  spirit  him- 
self with  a  keen  sense  of  rich  men's  weaknesses,  to  which 
he  must  truckle  with  delicacy  and  a  high-humble  mien 
of  character-altitude  and  self-respect.*  Some  presidents 
are  born  with  this  genius.  President  Eliot  grew  to  it. 
It  must  have  cost  a  certain  inherent  dignity  which  he 
once  had  some  pain  to  readjust  and  abase  his  nature  in 
its  maturity  to  multi-millionaires  when  they  blossomed 
on  to  the  scene,  which  is  a  credit  to  his  pliancy  if  not 
to  his  character. 


*In   speech    to    Episcopalian    Club,    at    Hotel    Brunswick,    Boston. 
Jan.  22,   '06. 

*  There  are  a  few  honorable  exceptions. 


TOADYISM    OF    THE    AMERICAN    BBAlN  169 

He  gives  a  perfect  model  for  the  Adulation  of  Croesus 
in  his  Concord  address  on  "Great  Riches,"  which  if 
properly  read  will  assist  every  college  graduate  to  gain 
the  smile  and  condescension  of  the  rich  man.  It  has 
elegant  maxims  for  a  Rich  Richard's  Almanac,  and  no 
parallel  as  exquisite  art  and  the  grand  humility  of  the 
dependent  learned.  It  oils  the  manly  hinges  of  the 
knees.  Its  strongest  trait  is  its  scientific  spirit :  it  anal- 
yses, is  emotionless,  seems  sublimely  fair,  seduces  the 
imagination  by  its  suavity — it  is  not  the  blatant,  rabid, 
unchaste  servility  of  the  politician ;  it  is  burnished,  scien- 
tific servility.  It  is  ascetic ;  it  chills  your  reasoning  with 
its  artificial  candor  and  you  think  it  judicial. 

The  professor  says :  "Any  man  who  by  sound  think- 
ing and  hard  work  develops  a  great  industry  and  makes 
it  profitable  and  stable  confers  an  enormous  benefit  on 
society." 

If  he  built  this  up  by  paying  low  wages,  so  that 
the  girls  serving  him  were  obliged  to  become  semi- 
prostitutes  to  eke  out  their  living,  was  it  a  social  ben- 
efit? Many  great  industries  stand  on  an  underpinning 
of  prostitution  and  worse  things.  In  almost  every  indus- 
try and  business  where  many  are  employed  the  better 
positions  are  held  by  women  who  are  private  mistresses 
of  men  higher  up.  This  is  the  a,  b,  c  of  the  subject 
of  great  riches.  Mr.  Eliot  appears  to  know  nothing 
of  it. 

He  speaks  of  the  gems  of  the  rich :  "They  like  to  see 
their  women  decked  with  beautiful  gems.  It  is  to  be  said 
in  favor  of  this  luxury  that  it  is  a  gratification  which 
does  no  bodily  harm  to  any  one,  and  gives  pleasure  to 
many  observers  outside  of  the  possessors  of  the  jewelry." 


170  MARRIAGE    AND    HACE    DEATH 

It  is  quite  true  that  jewels  do  not  explode,  shoot,  or 
assassinate.  But  they  absorb  wealth  wrhich  would  keep 
the  poor  from  tuberculosis,  which  is  bodily  harm.  Is 
our  president  also  unaware  of  this?  This  year,  1905,  the 
value  of  the  imported  gems  is  $37,000,000.  The  rich 
invest  enormously,  and  people  of  moderate  means  ape 
them,  therethrough  to  derive  respectability.  Yet  the 
diseases  and  corruption  caused  ~by  poverty  are  sapping 
the  stamina  of  the  race.  Thirty-seven  millions  applied 
annually  to  vitality  building  would  regenerate  the  race. 
Is  not  robbing  men  of  vitality,  bodily  harm?  Yet  Presi- 
dent Eliot  is  a  thinker. 

He  speaks  of  the  passion  of  the  rich  for  building 
palaces :  "It  is  incredible,  however,"  says  he,  "that  this 
should  be  a  greater  enjoyment  than  that  afforded  the 
mechanic  who  has  saved  a  few  hundred  dollars  and 
built  a  six-room  cottage  to  which  he  brings  his  young 
wife."  Suppose  the  mechanic  is  unable  to  save  the  few 
hundred  without  robbing  his  body  and  children  of  nutri- 
ment. There  are  many  such.  In  New  Kochelle,  N.  Y., 
the  following  happened  :* 

"For  years  it  was  the  dream  of  James  Owens  to  have 
a  home  for  himself,  his  faithful  wife,  and  their  f oui 
children.  For  years  it  remained  a  dream,  and  yet 
dream  which  had  the  power  of  sustaining  him  through 
the  long  day  of  hard  work  that  fell  to  him  as  a  teamster 
in  this  village.  For  years,  as  he  cherished  the  dream 
more  closely,  he  was  able  to  resist  the  temptation  that 
led  his  fellow-workers  to  the  saloon,  and  gradually  he 
laid  by  a  small  store  of  coin  that  to  him  seemed  a  veri- 
table treasure  trove.  A  year  ago  the  materialization  of 


*See  N.  Y.  Times,  Dec.  26,   '05. 


TOADYISM    OF    THE    AMERICAN    BRAIN  171 

the  dream  began.  He  bought  a  narrow  corner  of  land 
on  the  outskirts  of  the  village.  There  he  started  to 
build  the  home  that  was  to  be  all  his  own — his  and  his 
wife's  and  the  four  little  children's.  Save  as  he  might 
he  could  not  get  means  to  hire  help,  or  even  raise  enough 
to  permit  himself  to  ease  his  daily  toil  while  he  built 
the  house.  The  teamster's  day  was  as  long  as  it  had  ever 
been,  but  each  weekday  night  he  added  a  few  hours  to 
it,  which  he  spent  laboring  even  more  toilsomely  than 
he  had  done  in  the  daytime." 

At  length  he  thought  of  completing  the  house  to  pre- 
sent it  to  his  wife  and  children  Christmas  Day.  He  had 
been  long  overworking,  he  now  increased  the  strain. 
The  weather  grew  bad  and  he  was  exposed  to  it  all  day 
teaming  and  at  night  as  he  worked  on  his  house.  He  took 
pneumonia  and  died  just  before  Christmas.  Overwork 
killed  him;  he  had  waited  so  many  years  for  his  six- 
roomed  house  that  he  grew  eager  to  have  it,  which  a 
workingman  must  not  do.  The  rich  do  not  have  to  wait 
for  their  palaces.  "The  widow  and  the  children  will 
never  occupy  the  home  that  was  to  be  all  their  own,  and 
which  stands  so  nearly  ready.  The  widow  must  work 
for  the  children,  and  to  get  work  she  must  be  in  the  cen- 
tre of  the  city,  and  the  home  that  is  theirs  and  yet  not 
theirs  lies  far  on  the  outskirts."  President  Eliot  has 
not  time  or  training  for  insight  into  the  conditions  of  the 
poor  man.  If  he  would  drive  a  team  for  his  living  for 
six  months,  he  would  learn  more  social  truth  than  is  now 
in  possession  of  the  entire  Harvard  Faculty. 

He  says :  "In  business  enterprises  the  existing  modes 
of  discovery  and  selecting  of  autocrats  seems  to  be  better 
than  in  the  government,  for  autocracy  in  business  has 


172  MAUKIAGfi    AND    RACE    DEATH 

been  justified  by  results."  The  results  are  that  a  dozen 
financial  autocrats  are  the  proprietors  of  the  nation. 
Eliot  is  pleased  with  the  situation,  for  he  offers  no  criti- 
cism of  it.  His  only  stricture  is  that  a  rich  man  can 
hardly  bring  his  children  up  free  of  habits  of  indiffer- 
ence and  laziness. 

What  one  leaves  unsaid  of  a  subject,  as  well  as  what 
he  says  and  how  he  says  it,  are  the  prime  elements  of 
scientific  adulation.  President  Eliot  has  ranked  himself 
with  Senators  Depew  and  Platt  of  New  York.  The 
money  he  secures  for  Harvard  by  fawning  on  the  rich 
is  beneficial  to  him  personally  by  promoting  his  educa- 
tional status.  Presidential  fawrning  is  educational  graft 

The  Boston  Post  (Jan.  20,  '06 )  says:  "Rich  Back 
Bay  man  gave  love  to  housemaid.  Pretty  Jennie  Mur- 
phy won  respect  and  affection  by  industry  and  personal 
qualities.  'I  shall  marry  Jennie  Murphy  to-day.  For 
she  is  a  good,  pure  girl  and  I'm  proud  of  my  prize.'  So 
saying,  Leroy  Jay,  32  years  old,  scion  of  one  of  Back 
Bay's  proudest  families,  millionaire  in  his  own  right  and 
shining  light  of  exclusive  clubs,  took  leave  of  his  aunt, 
Mrs.  William  Matthews,  at  the  house  198  Commonwealth 
Avenue,  where  he  has  made  his  home.  *  *  *  From 
housemaid  to  membership  in  the  councils  of  the  aristo- 
cratic and  moneyed  matrons — that  is  the  transformation 
which  is  supposed  to  have  come  to  pretty  Jennie 
Murphy." 

President  Eliot  expresses  these  thoughts  with  much 
greater  grace  and  charm ;  he  is  neither  coarse  nor  atro- 
cious, but  he  speaks  parallel  sentiments  from  the  same 
level  of  mind. 


CHAPTER  XIX. 

IS  THE  WEALTH  CONTRACT  WITH  THE  RICH  VALID? 

The  structure  of  the  American  brain  can  be  better 
illustrated  than  directly  described.  Suppose  a  commu- 
nity to  be  situated  in  a  highly  fertile  land  but  dependent 
wholly  for  its  productiveness  upon  an  artificial  water 
supply.  All  water  for  every  purpose  is  derived  from  ex- 
ternal sources,  so  that  the  lives,  health  and  prosperity 
of  the  inhabitants  are  conditioned  on  their  abundance 
and  purity.  If  all  receive  their  due  supply  of  water  all 
will  enjoy  comfort,  health,  the  privileges  of  education, 
travel  and  recreation,  which  combine  to  produce  a  better 
race  each  succeeding  generation.  By  some  means  a 
theory  of  vested  interests  in  this  water  is  evolved,  which, 
nude  of  irrelevancies,  is  that  several  private  persons,  or 
even  one,  may  acquire  the  right  of  exclusively  owning 
the  water.  By  owning  he  is  entitled  to  dispose  of  it  upon 
his  own  terms. 

Now  what  does  this  signify?  It  means  that  all  mem- 
bers of  the  community  have  transferred  to  the  water 
owner  their  whole  rights  to  comfort,  health,  travel,  hap- 
piness, and  personal  and  communal  development:  have 
given  away  their  liberty  to  be  human  beings — which  is 
plain  manhood-suicide.  The  owner  of  the  water  now 
sells  it  back  to  the  people  on  terms  that  give  him  all 

173 


MABRIAGE    AND    RACE    DEATH 

they  formerly  invested  in  comfort,  travel,  education,  de- 
velopment and  happiness ;  so  that  in  conceding  the  theory 
of  vested  rights  in  water  they  have  committed  human 
suicide.  No  people  would  consciously  and  intentionally 
do  this.  They  might  perform  acts  which  would  lead  to 
it  without  foreseeing  the  end,  or  acts  which  shrewd  men 
might  take  advantage  of  to  establish  the  theory  of  vested 
interests  and  gain  possession  of  the  water;  but  the  peo- 
ple never  discerningly  and  voluntarily  would  or  did  cede 
their  rights  to  health,  comfort,  travel,  happiness  and 
development  away.  These  rights  were  therefore  ob- 
tained from  them  under  some  form  of  false  pretense,  the 
contract  was  secured  through  misrepresentation,  and  so 
is  void. 

Those  who  reaped  the  benefits  of  the  contract  may 
not  have  maliciously  deceived,  they  may  not  even  have 
apprehended  in  advance  the  tremendous  privileges  they 
were  acquiring:  notwithstanding  this  the  contract  is 
invalid,  because  the  people  did  not  see  what  they  were 
alienating,  and  if  they  saw  were  blind  to  its  deadly 
import.  True,  their  blindness  was  from  imperfection 
of  brain,  but  imperfection  of  brain  in  minors  is  just 
what  induces  the  law  to  nullify  harmful  contracts  made 
with  minors  and  to  punish  those  who  take  advantage 
of  them.  In  being  led  to  relinquish  their  water  sources 
6t/  any  means  whatever,  legal  or  illegal,  and  whether 
the  act  of  parting  was  involuntary  or  intended,  the  act 
was  invalid,  and  the  rights  and  ownership  were  not 
truly  transferred,  but  remained  with  the  people. 

There  is  little  difficulty  in  demonstrating  this  con- 
clusion when  the  problem  is  simplified,  as  it  is  when 
all  life,  development  and  happiness  depend  on  one  ele- 


OUR    WEALTH    CONTRACT    WITH    THE    RICH          175 

ment,  water.  But  if  the  principle  is  sound  when  these 
supreme  things  hang  upon  one  element,  it  is  sound  when 
they  rest  on  another.  In  the  community  of  the  nation 
wealth  is  the  element  on  which  the  health,  comfort, 
travel,  recreation,  happiness  and  evolution  of  the  people 
are  based.  And  it  is  therefore  proved  that  the  theory 
of  vested  interests,  by  which  the  national  community's 
wealth  has  been  alienated  to  a  few,  is  false  and  invalid, 
that  the  contract  is  annulled  and  dissolved  by  its  na- 
ture. 

The  American  brain  was  duped  if  it  made  the  con- 
tract, and  more  duped  if,  the  contract  being  fastened 
on  it  by  force,  fraud  or  open  argument,  it  submitted 
after  learning  the  effects  of  the  compact,  and  agreed 
to  regard  it  as  fixed.  Nothing  could  give  binding  force 
to  such  an  agreement:  society  could  not  recant  these 
rights  without  surrendering  its  nature  and  dissolving 
the  true  foundations  of  its  existence.  The  social  brain 
failed  here:  in  not  seeing  that  no  promise,  contract  or 
situation,  however  solemnly  made  or  assumed,  by  indi- 
viduals or  society,  is  valid  if  it  injures  or  retards  human- 
ity. And  if  even  one  member  of  society  is  subjected  to 
preventible  hurt  by  the  misplacement  of  wealth,  so  that 
in  his  person  the  growth  of  humanity  is  retarded,  the 
wealth  system  by  which  that  hurt  comes  is  instantly 
null,  though  sworn  to  with  a  thousand  oaths  and  forti- 
fied by  ten  thousand  laws.  The  fabric  falls  and  the  con- 
tract liquefies  and  is  unmade,  because  all  men  swearing 
together  cannot  validly  contract  to  cramp  social  growth 
through  injury  to  one  man,  neither  if  that  one  is  a 
party  to  the  swearing,  nor  if  he  is  not.  If  a  party,  it  is 
because  his  brain  is  that  of  a  minor  adult,  incapable  of 
self-defense. 


176  MARRIAGE    AND    RACE    DEATH 

This  man  has  likewise  his  own  personal  right  not  to 
be  injured,  and  it  is  an  indefensible  blow  at  his  life  to 
take  wealth  from  him,  needed  for  his  growth,  and  give  it 
to  men  not  needing  it  for  their  growth.  Yet  this  is  done 
universally :  it  is  the  essence  of  civilization.  And  through 
doing  it  the  modern  wealth  system  is  void,  and  every 
one  is  released  from  its  laws  as  much  as  if  congresses 
repealed  them  all.  Men  may  be  imprisoned  for  exercis- 
ing their  freedom  from  void  wealth-laws,  but  they  will 
be  blameless  and  the  culprits  will  judge  their  judges. 

Another  law  is  that  when,  for  social  ends,  harm  or 
hardship  is  necessary  it  must  be  shared  by  all,  not  con- 
centrated on  some  as  scapegoats. 

A  contract  to  injure  the  human  race  cannot  stand. 
If  a  community  of  a  million  people  agreed  with  a  thou- 
sand of  its  citizens  to  do  something  which  afterward  it 
was  found  would  bring  a  plague  and  take  off  half  the 
nation  or  five  hundred  thousand  souls — is  there  any 
one  who  would  say  that  the  contract  was  sacred  and 
ought  to  be  executed?  Is  there  any  one  living  who  would 
not  call  a  people  infamous  for  keeping  such  a  contract—- 
more fit  wholly  to  die  than  to  live?  And  of  the  character 
of  the  thousand  citizens  demanding  fulfilment  of  this 
social  promise,  with  death  to  half  the  nation,  for  their 
private  gain — what  of  them?  They  would  be  called 
hard  names,  ruffians,  fiends,  men  deserving  to  be  hunted 
down  and  shot  as  wild  beasts.  To  leave  them  in  the  land 
would  be  to  coddle  devils. 

But  what  are  health,  intelligence,  comfort,  educa- 
tion, happiness,  and  development,  but  component  parts 
of  that  life  which  plagues  take  away? — and  if  a  man 
is  robbed  of  these  he  is  essentially  killed.  All  the  wort 


OUR    WEALTH    CONTRACT    WITH    THE    RICH          177 

of  life  is  gone :  and  men  who  wrest  these  properties  from 
a  human  being  are  bringers  of  a  plague  that  puts  out  the 
man's  true  life. 

Suppose  then  the  contract,  instead  of  causing 
instant  physical  death  of  five  hundred  thousand,  were 
found  to  rob  the  population  of  health,  intelligence,  com- 
fort, education,  happiness  and  development:  results 
involving  plagues,  deaths,  degradation,  brutalization, 
the  growth  of  all  vices  and  corruption,  besides  race  stag- 
nation and  decay:  should  the  people  revere  this  con- 
tract? or  keep  it  more  than  they  should  the  one  killing 
their  bodies?  Would  they  not  be  soul-murderers  if  they 
did?  Yet  this  is  the  kind  of  contract  the  American  peo- 
ple fear  to  break.  One  which  an  intelligent  mind  or 
nation  would  rescind  because  adherence  to  it  is  a  clear 
crime.  A  crime  against  fellow  man,  against  the  universe 

of  which  man  is  the  child.    On  such  a  contract  as  this 

• 

the  American  people's  means  of  life  have  been  ceded 
to  a  few. 

Now  the  people  think  it  a  duty  to  the  few  to  whom 
they  made  this  damnatory  concession  (not  seeing  its 
consequences),  to  abide  by  it:  and  the  few  who  hold 
the  cord  of  this  contract  round  the  people's  necks  insist 
that  it  shall  be  kept.  Who  shall  speak  fittingly  molten 
words  of  the  character  of  these  few?  They  are  race 
Shylocks,  cutting  out  a  whole  people's  heart.  They  sell 
their  brothers  into  ignorance,  disease,  deprivation  and 
degradation ;  they  rob  them  of  all  real  life.  Name  these 
persons  what  we  may,  can  we  exaggerate?  They  are 
human  race  Judases;  race  traitors.  They  make  earth 
hell;  they  are  hellish.  They  are  Our  Rich.  They  should 
be  crushed.  And  they  do  all  this  harm  through  a  spuri- 


178  MARRIAGE    AND    RACE    DEATH 

ous  wealth-contract,  utterly  void.  They  are  puny,  weak, 
and  few,  yet  they  scare  mankind:  they  wave  the  paper 
cudgel  of  this  fraudulent  title  to  wealth,  and  mankind 
cowers  as  if  the  heavens  belched  lightnings. 

This  quailing  at  nothing  is  an  American  brain  ex- 
hibit. The  brain  emits  its  own  fog  and  then  cries  like 
a  child  in  fright  of  it.  It  dashes  to  race  ruin  because  it 
has  not  brain  eyes  to  see  that  a  contract  with  death  is 
self-cancelled. 

In  the  case  of  water-ownership,  monopoly  might  go 
the  lengths  of  killing  many  with  thirst:  as  a  property 
right  it  would  be  just  and  permissible.  The  American 
brain,  true  to  its  property-creed,  would  be  forced  to  say 
that  all  citizens  must  die  in  preference  to  jarring  the 
sanctity  of  divine  vested  interests.  So  all  men  are 
under  an  ironclad  contract  to  die  if  the  owners  of  vested 
interests  speak  the  word  by  monopolizing  water  or  wealth 
necessary  for  life.  If  they  refuse  to  die  they  wholly 
shatter  the  property  theory.  But  it  is  as  high  a  crime 
to  deprive  men  of  the  wealth  needful  to  proper  life  as  it 
is  by  a  little  further  deprival  to  kill  them  wholly:  the 
higher  man  is  killed,  which  is  just  as  truly  murder  as 
killing  bodies. 

Our  rich  have  pressed  the  monopoly  of  wealth  to  the 
point  of  killing  the  bodies  of  many  and  they  have  killed 
the  higher  life  and  character  of  all.  Had  they  not 
murdered  the  higher  life  the  people's  intelligence  would 
have  grown  and  swept  them  away :  they  have  saved  them- 
selves from  annihilation  by  annihilating  human  intelli- 
gence and  human  soul.  They  excel  physical  murderers. 


CHAPTER  XX. 

DO  THE  RICH  BURN  WEALTH  ? 

Some  think  that  the  rich  wastefully  consume  very 
little,  that  their  ownership  of  American  wealth  is  mere 
directorship  of  it,  not  consumption.  This  cheap  conceit 
is  not  confined  to  the  unschooled.  Under  it,  the  rich 
are  particularly  great  self-sacrificers,  to  be  owners  and 
generals  of  American  life  so  cheap.  Statistics  and  per- 
centages might  be  invented  to  show  that  they  burn  an 
inappreciable  amount  of  luxuries :  such  figures  would  be 
lies. 

The  truth  in  this  matter  is  an  open  scroll  if  men 
would  sit  up  and  read  it.  Every  man  can  gather  exact 
statistics  by  taking  a  walk.  He  can  refute  any  pro- 
fessor's statistical  fictions  with  his  own  eyes.  The  re- 
markable thing  is  that  our  body  of  lying  institutions 
prevent  the  masses  from  sitting  up  and  reading.  The 
people  walk  through  town  every  day  with  their  eyes 
shut  to  facts,  seeing  nothing,  but  when  a  fraudulent 
statistician  or  dullard  jurist  comes  to  them  with  an  in- 
vented page  of  paper  about  these  facte,  they  read  and 
believe  with  avidity.  Now  the  problem  of  progress  is 
to  break  open  their  eyes  and  make  them  read  the  plain 
I  scroll  of  life  in  every  street  they  walk. 

Go  directly  to  the  lives  of  the  poor,  then  to  the  lives 
| of  the  rich,  and  compare  them.  This  will  give  you  true 

179 


180  MARRIAGE    AND    RACE    DEATH 

statistics.  You  can  then  sum  up  for  yourself  the  wealth 
burned.  Compare  the  palaces  and  the  tenements,  the 
yachts  and  the  hovels,  the  fabulous  clubs  and  the  rooker- 
ies, the  gorgeous  rich  men's  hotels  and  the  fifteen-cent 
lodging  houses,  the  first  cabins  and  the  slum  steerages 
of  the  ocean  liners,  the  filthy  factories  where  the  people 
work  and  the  stately  offices  where  their  masters  sit. 
Compare  the  journeys  abroad  of  the  rich  and  the  poor 
— the  wage-toilers  never  go;  compare  the  auto-cars  and 
stables  of  them  both;  compare  the  country  pleasure- 
estates  of  the  millionaires  with  those  of  the  workers; 
compare  the  length  and  costliness  of  their  vacation  tours 
— that  is  the  wealth-stuff  consumed  by  the  rich  when 
they  travel  and  feed,  and  that  consumed  by  the  columns 
of  poor  on  similar  occasions.  The  latter  occasions  do 
not  occur.  Compare  the  functions  of  the  millionaires' 
sons  and  daughters  with  those  of  the  children  of  the 
common  multitude,  and  this  is  vital.  The  former  are 
human  machines  invented  to  destroy  wealth,  the  latter 
are  human  machines  invented  to  elaborate  this  wealth 
for  the  high-born  young  to  destroy.  Go  everywhere  and 
you  see  these  gilded  youths  spending,  spending,  consum- 
ing and  consuming.  They  are  procreated  for  it.  Look 
lastly  at  the  prodigious  multitude  of  attendants  on  the 
rich  and  ask  what  they  are  doing  but  giving  their  time 
and  labor  unproductively,  uselessly,  so  blotting  their 
labor  out,  which  is  burning  it,  for  the  rich. 

But  here  we  meet  the  vulgarest  of  all  prevalent  falla- 
cies. All  this,  they  claim,  employs  labor  and  supports 
people.  When  the  rich  consume  costly  foods,  wines  and 
clothes,  build  great  palaces  and  tour  the  earth  in  their 


DO    THE    EICH    BURN    WEALTH?  181 

kingly  conveyances,  when  they  revel  with  a  fabulous 
expense  of  service  in  their  orgies  and  pomps,  the  igno- 
rant say  that  labor  is  employed  and  myriads  of  people 
supported  to  produce  these  things.  And  by  a  little  trick 
of  suggestion  it  is  imparted  that  the  real  consumers  of 
this  colossal  substance  and  dazzling  cost  are  the  people 
who  prepare  the  pomps  and  not  the  rich  who  figure  at 
the  culminating  ceremonies.  How  thin  and  vulgar  this 
sophism,  yet  how  fearfully  dynamic  and  agile ! 

For  all  this  sum  of  service-labor  might  go  to  pro- 
duce useful  constructive  things  that  would  elevate  the 
population  out  of  the  gutter.  There  are  two  quantities 
of  wealth  here  consumed,  one  of  which  is  concealed  by 
the  sophist.  There  is  (1)  the  quantity  which  the  rich 
man  pays  the  workers  for  producing  his  orgies  and 
pomps;  there  is  (2)  the  time  and  labor  strength  of 
these  workers  used  up  in  preparing  the  orgies  and  pomps. 
Were  there  no  great  rich  men  to  direct  wealth  to  orgies 
and  pomps,  the  first  quantity  of  wealth  would  employ 
and  support  workers  as  much  as  nowr,  but  the  second 
quantity,  that  is  the  product  of  these  workers'  labor  in 
the  period  of  the  support,  would  produce  entirely  differ- 
ent things.  It  would  create  a  product  useful  and  ele- 
vating to  society,  the  existence  of  which  is  now  prevented. 
The  rich  prevent  it.  This  is  the  second  quantity  of 
wealth,  and  it  is  what  the  rich  consume.  It  is  abso- 
lutely burned,  abolished,  annihilated. 

And  that  its  quantity  is  prodigious  any  man  can 
determine  for  himself  by  the  comparison  I  have  advised. 
It  far  exceeds  in  amount  and  hurt  what  burning  the 
nation's  wheat  crop  annually  would  do.  For  it  not  only 
starves  the  people  of  physical  nourishment  just  as  burn- 


182  MARRIAGE    AND    RACE    DEATH 

ing  the  wheat  would,  but  it  debauches  all  who  thus  min- 
ister to  the  rich  and  all  who  live  in  the  industrial  system. 
It  burns  the  nation's  wheat  crop,  and  its  soul  crop. 

Justice  Holmes  of  the  U.  S.  Supreme  Court  says :  "If 
a  man  owned  one-half  of  the  wTheat  in  the  country  and 
announced  his  intention  to  burn  it,  such  abuse  of  owner- 
ship would  not  be  permitted.  The  crowd  would  kill  him 
sooner  than  stand  it"*  It  would  be  permitted.  It  is 
permitted. 

But  Judge  Holmes  means  nothing  by  this  statement, 
for,  being  a  judge,  he  holds  the  vulgar  fallacy  that  the 
rich  are  trivial  consumers.  He  follows  the  luxury  pro- 
cess only  to  the  first  stage,  then,  being  a  judge,  his  mind 
halts.  He  thinks  that  the  fifty  thousand  dollar  balls 
and  other  pomps  and  splendors  of  the  rich  are  not  in 
themselves  evils,  but  that  they  confuse  the  workinginen 
into  thinking  that  "the  Vanderbilts  and  Kockefellers 
swallowr  their  incomes  like  Cleopatra's  dissolved  pearls/7 
and  so  are  evils.  And  he  thinks  the  confusion  is  evil 
apparently  because  the  denied  poor  may  come  to  think 
that  these  rich  are  burning  the  wheat  and  act  as  he 
suggests — namely,  kill  the  rich  who  do  it.  This  is  the 
order  of  brains  that  our  politics  elevates  to  the  Supreme 
Bench,  the  highest  tribunal  of  the  nation,  brains  of  the 
fourth  quality.  It  explains  the  wide  and  just  contempt 
for  the  Supreme  Court. 

Dogberry.  "Dost  thou  not  suspect  my  place?  Dost 
thou  not  suspect  my  years? — O  that  he  were  here  to  write 
me  down — an  ass! — but,  masters,  remember,  that  I  am 
an  ass;  though  it  be  not  written  down,  yet  forget  not 
that  I  am  an  ass.  *  *  *  I  am  a  wise  fellow,  and, 


^Cosmopolitan  Magazine,  Feb.,  '06. 


DO    THE     RICH     BUBN     WEALTH?  183 

which  is  more,  an  officer ;  *  *  *  and  one  that  knows 
the  law,  go  to;  and  a  rich  fellow  enough,  go  to;  and  a 
fellow  that  hath  had  losses ;  and  one  that  hath  two  gowns, 
and  everything  handsome  about  him : — Bring  him  away. 
O,  that  I  had  been  writ  down — an  ass." 


CHAPTEK  XXI. 

THE  RACE  AIM  OF  SEX. 

It  is  not  for  the  sorry  purpose  of  railing  at  mankind 
that  we  are  defining  the  structure  of  its  present  brain. 
It  is  to  show  that  a  new  brain  type  is  man's  capital  need. 
Nor  would  our  purpose  be  half  fulfilled  if  we  stopped 
there  and  did  not  indicate  how  that  type  can  be  had. 

It  is  through  the  action  of  sex. 

As  we  advance  with  the  argument  let  it  be  remem- 
bered that  all  we  say  aims  toward  remedy. 

But  it  is  hopeless  to  offer  remedy  unless  the  presence 
of  disease  is  proved.  The  hardest  problem  known  is  to 
convince  men  of  their  need  of  alteration.  When  human 
brain  is  better  this  will  be  the  lightest  problem.  And 
I  imagine  that  the  best  way  to  convince  them  is  to  go 
over  as  it  were  on  foot  the  geography  of  human  life, 
mapping  each  inch  of  the  way,  so  that  satisfied  brains 
may  see  what  is  going  on  next  door  to  them  through  their 
satisfaction.  Then  to  show  them  the  causes. 

And  why  do  we  not  see  this  without  a  brain  map? 
It  is  our  brain  condition  that  prevents  us  from  seeing 
the  physical  condition  we  are  in. 

As  diseases  are  known  by  their  signs,  so  a  man's 
character  is  known  by  hie  acts,  which  are  the  signs  of  his 
nature.  Every  difference  in  character  represents  a 

184 


THE    RACE    AIM    OF    SEX  185 

physical  difference  in  brain :  if  the  microscope  or  chemi- 
cal tests  were  strong  enough  every  man's  brain  would 
present  a  peculiar  picture,  individual  to  himself,  which 
when  photographed  would  show  the  physical  brain  signs 
of  each  element  of  his  character  down  to  the  finest  strand. 

Now  if  this  is  so  of  men  fairly  near  the  same  level, 
we  can  see  how  much  more  marked  the  divergence  of 
brain  signs  and  concomitant  structure  will  be  between 
one  level  of  men  and  another  level — between  the  species 
of  to-day  and  the  coming  species  without  the  faults  of 
to-day.  For  every  brain  has  its  faults  registered  in  its 
essence  or  build. 

To  show  the  brain  build  we  have,  the  true  method 
then  is  to  map  the  faults,  since  we  cannot  yet  photograph 
the  brain  internally,  or  image  its  ultimate  processes 
chemically.  With  this  map  we  shall  picture  to  ourselves 
the  sort  of  mind  instrument  we  carry  within  us  that  can 
produce  and  endure  these  faults;  then  we  shall  abhor 
a  defective  brain  as  we  do  a  diseased  lung,  and  take 
the  surest  means  to  obtain  high  and  faultless  brains. 

Sex  breeding  is  the  surest  means  we  possess  for  this 
work. 

A  map  of  the  brain  such  as  I  am  making,  is  given 
in  lieu  of  the  microscopic  or  chemical  photograph  which 
we  cannot  have  because  our  agencies  are  not  fine  enough. 
A  drawing  of  the  signs  must  answer.  These  signs  are 
what  men  do,  and  what  they  needlessly  tolerate;  they  are 
the  social  conditions  we  live  in  without  social  vomiting. 
If  a  man  can  live  contentedly  in  a  sewer  we  know  his 
nature,  and  if  a  race  can  live  without  vomiting  and  re- 
bellion in  a  social  sewer,  we  know  what  Its  brain  con- 
stitution is. 


186  MARRIAGE    AND    RACE    DEATH 

Now  I  affirm  that  we  Americans  live  without  retch- 
ing or  rebellion  in  a  social  sewer — in  a  society  as  vile 
to  a  right  brain  as  a  physical  cesspool  is  to  right  senses. 

Is  this  so? 

If  it  is  so,  we  certainly  need  a  new  type  of  brain  and 
will  use  any  means  offered  by  heaven  to  get  it  The  sewer 
resident  would,  if  he  learned  how  to  see  and  smell. 

To  educate  these  organs  in  the  sewer  man  is  the 
problem.  To  educate  the  brain  organs  of  seeing,  smelling, 
hearing  and  feeling  in  ourselves  is  the  problem  for  us 
who  dwell  without  loathing  and  rebellion  in  the  social 
sewer.  A  true  map  of  the  sewer  will  do  this.  And  so  I 
give  the  facts  of  life  about  us,  as  proofs  of  our  ligatured 
under-formed  brain  faculties,  not  to  ridicule  that  brain, 
but  that  we  may  correct  it. 

And  it  will  be  shown  how  sex  will  correct  it. 


i 


CHAPTEK  XXII. 

DO  WE  LIVE  IN  A  SOCIAL  SEWER? 

Whether  we  live  in  a  social  sewer  and  whether  the 
rich  kill  men's  bodies  and  annihilate  the  foundations 
of  higher  life,  the  reader  must  judge  from  the  facts  as- 
sembled in  this  chapter.  For  those  who  have  not  yet 
learned  to  walk  the  streets  of  their  towns  with  their 
eyes  open  I  produce  photographic  comparisons  of  the 
great  few  rich  and  the  huge  miserable  many. 

Coroner  Joseph  G.  Armstrong,  of  Allegheny  County, 
Pa.,  says:*  "The  number  of  deaths  of  foreigners  in  the 
mills  in  Pittsburg  and  vicinity  has  come  to  be  nothing 
short  of  appalling,  and,  after  a  careful  investigation  of 
the  matter,  I  am  convinced  that  a  great  many  are  due 
to  lack  of  proper  protection.  Conditions  are  such  at 
present  that  the  life  of  a  foreigner  employed  in  the  mills 
and  the  mines  is  given  less  consideration  than  is  the  life 
of  a  horse  or  a  mule.  In  the  darkest  days  of  slavery  in 
the  South  the  negro  had  better  treatment  than  the  Hun- 
garian in  the  mills  receives  to-day.  I  was  simply 
astounded  during  my  first  month  in  office  to  find  that 
during  the  thirty  days  twelve  men  had  been  killed  in  one 
plant  alone  of  the  United  States  Steel  Corporation. 
These  deaths  were  not  caused  by  one  big  accident,  but 

*Pittsburg  special  to  N.  Y.  Times,  April  16,   '05. 

187 


188  MARRIAGE    AND    RACE    DEATH 

separately.  How  many  more  were  maimed  and  injured 
during  the  same  period,  God  only  knows."  "The  for- 
eigners stand  in  the  most  abject  fear  of  the  foremen  for 
whom  they  work.  In  order  to  escape  censure,  they  take 
chances  tJiat  jeopardize  their  lives  every  hour  in  the 
day." 

"There  are  dozens  of  Hungarians  and  other  foreign- 
ers killed  in  the  mills  every  year  of  which  the  public, 
or  even  the  Coroner,  never  hear,"  declared  an  attach^ 
of  the  Austro-Hungarian  Consulate.  "We  have  recently 
investigated  the  cases  of  twro  men  who  were  reported  as 
'disappeared.'  They  were  Hungarians,  employed  at  the 
tops  of  blast  furnaces,  whose  duty  it  was  to  dump  the 
cars  of  ore  into  the  furnaces.  In  both  instances  the  men 
were  missed  after  they  went  to  the  top  of  the  elevator 
shaft.  Their  dinner  pails  and  coats  were  left  at  the 
bottom.  There  is  but  a  small  bridge  at  the  top  upon 
which  to  stand.  One  misstep  and  the  man  is  thrown 
into  the  furnace." 

These  are  murder  victims  of  the  Steel  Trust.  Human 
beings  are  maimed  for  life,  broken  on  machinery,  and 
burned  alive  to  produce  dividends  for  the  Steel  Kings. 
Has  any  one  noted  that  the  new  Inquisition  with  its 
torture  chambers  is  industrial,  not  religious?  The  heads 
of  those  who  get  the  money  from  the  system  are  turned. 
Schwab  and  Monte  Carlo,  Corey  and  his  spendthrift 
revelries  with  light  women,  Frick  and  his  Duquesne 
Club  dinner,  Judge  Gary's  purchase  of  another  man's 
young  wife,  show  how  the  wealth  sweated  out  of  the 
steel  workers  rots  the  men  at  the  top  who  sweat  it. 
Corey  was  an  intimate  of  Mabel  Gilman,  the  actress. 
Miss  Gilman  said:  "Pittsburg  millionaires  are  without 


DO    WE   LIVE   IN    A    SOCIAL   SEWER?  189 

sufficient  culture  to  spend  their  money  except  upon 
pleasures  of  the  senses."  At  the  Pittsburg  millionaires' 
club  (Duquesne)  one  commented  on  this,  "Well,  I  guess 
Mabel  ought  to  know."*  Steel  President  Corey  had 
squandered  sumptuously  on  her. 

Frick  is  one  of  these  Pittsburg  millionaires — the 
Frick  who  was  Carnegie's  captain  in  the  massacre  of  the 
Homestead  workingmen  who  supplied  him  his  money 
to  burn  upon  the  senses. 

The  New  York  World  of  Dec.  14,  '05,  contained  the 
following  statement  about  a  "Frick  Dinner,"  held  in  the 
Duquesne  Club  seven  or  eight  years  ago,  in  which  steel 
president  Corey  participated:  "Anna  Held,  to  whom 
f  500  was  given  to  sing  at  the  bachelor  dinner,  went  to 
the  Duquesne  Club  after  she  had  finished  at  a  local  play- 
house. What  happened  there  is  known  fully  only  to 
Corey  and  the  other  guests,  but  the  fact  remains  that 
Miss  Held  fled  in  terror,  tears  and  tatters  from  the 
club  by  a  back  door,  escaping  in  her  carriage.  It  was 
said  afterward  that  in  her  abbreviated  stage  costume 
Miss  Held  had  started  to  sing  her  favorite  little  song— 

Oh,  won't  you  come  and  play  with  me? 
Come  play  with  me,  come  play  with  me,  &c. — 

when  something  happened.  The  song  was  never  fin- 
ished, for  Miss  Held  was  rescued  by  her  manager  and 
rushed  from  the  club.  The  manager  started  to  raise  a 
row  afterward,  but  was  quieted  in  some  way  and  no 
more  than  the  above  facts  were  ever  made  public." 

In  this  wise  our  rich  rob  and  slaughter  workingmen 
to  feed  their  revels.  The  system  stands  on  robbery  and 
assassination  and  rots  the  robbers  and  assassins.  "If  a 
man  owned  one-half  of  the  wheat  in  the  country  and 


*Pittsburg  special  to  St.  Louis  Post-Dispatch,  D«c.  26>   'Of, 


190  MARRIAGE    AND    RACE    DEATH 

announced  his  intention  to  burn  it,  such  abuse  of  owner- 
ship would  not  be  permitted.  The  crowd  would  kill 
him  sooner  than  stand  it."  (Justice  Holmes.) 

When  in  the  winter  following  the  great  coal  strike  of 
1902  the  Standard  advanced  the  price  of  oil  $1.47  a  bar- 
rel and  its  retail  price  4  or  5  cents  a  gallon,  its  estimated 
profits  by  the  act  were  $6,000,000.  Because  of  scarcity 
and  price,  coal  was  out  of  the  reach  of  many  poor  who 
substituted  oil,  so  that  the  Standard  crew  wrung  its  extra 
profits  largely  out  of  their  terrible  want.  In  1902  the 
Standard  paid  45  per  cent,  dividends.  It  is  claimed  that 
the  by-products  of  petroleum  "makes  the  oil  cost  nothing 
to  the  Standard  Company."  Like  water  monopolists  rais- 
ing the  price  until  many  die,  the  Standard  oil-owners 
advanced  oil  in  a  popular  crisis  and  literally  slew  many. 
The  American  brain  saw  natural  business  in  this,  not 
a  ground  for  expropriating  Standard  property,  if  not 
hanging  its  managers. 

We  have  testimony  that  many  w^re  slain.  Dr.  Her- 
man L.  During,  then  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  City 
Mission  in  lower  Spruce  Street,  Philadelphia,  said:  "It 
is  remarkable  with  what  spirit  the  poor  have  borne  the 
sufferings  of  this  winter.  There  have  been  no  uprisings, 
no  threats.  The  destitution  is  very  great,  and  this  cold 
weather  has  made  it  harder  to  bear,  but  the  people  have 
endured  it  bravely.  And  the  absence  of  an  appeal  for 
help,  in  many  a  case,  keeps  hidden  very  desperate 
circumstances,  until  a  death  brings  the  undertaker 
and  the  minister"  The  sheep-like  attribute  of  the 
poor,  who  suffer  even  to  death  without  rising  in  revolu- 
tion, marks  the  worm  and  slave. 

7  > 


DO   WE   LIVE   IN    A    SOCIAL   SEWEE?  191 

A  cold  wave  came  and  a  reporter,  after  investigating 
the  poor,  brought  back  the  following  :*  "It  is  no  won- 
der, if,  under  ordinary  circumstances,  the  lowest  masses 
dread  the  winter  as  they  wTould  a  human  enemy,  but 
with  the  scarcity  of  coal  added  to  their  chronic  lack  of 
money  their  condition  to-day  in  this  city  appals  one 
catching  his  first  glimpse  at  their  unspeakable  misery. 
The  ordinary  situation  of  a  poor  family  is  a  bare  hand- 
to-mouth  existence.  The  father,  if  sober  and  at  work, 
brings  home  from  |5  to  $8  a  week.  Out  of  this  he  keeps 
a  wife  and  four  or  five  children.  The  family  lives  in 
two  rooms  of  a  small  house  on  a  back  street,  for  which 
he  pays  f 2  a  month  per  room.  The  rest  of  his  salary  goes 
for  food,  clothing  and  frequently  premium  on  his  life 
insurance.  As  a  rule  he  lays  by  nothing  and  has  no 
margin  for  unforeseen  accidents." 

Then  the  price  of  fuel  and  other  necessaries  rises  and 
soon  there  is  a  death  in  the  family.  Providence  has 
chastened  his  children.  Later,  the  Providence  gives  a 
million  of  the  money  chastened  out  of  the  poor  to  Yale 
University.  A  while  since  there  was  an  important  strike 
and  Yale  students  as  labor  scabs  replaced  the  working 
men  to  break  the  strike.  Again,  in  the  recent  elevated 
and  subway  strike  in  New  York,  Columbia  University 
contributed  her  athletes  for  strike-breakers.  Thus  the 
circle  is  completed.  Money  taken  from  the  poor  in  out- 
rageous prices  which  reduce  them  to  want  and  death, 
trickles  to  the  colleges  to  educate  students  to  protect  the 
rich  donors  against  the  poor  wrhen  they  strike  for  more 
wages  and  food  to  ward  off  death.  Providence  works 
in  this  country  openly. 

•Philadelphia  Bulletin,  Feb.  20,   >03. 


192  MARRIAGE    AND    RACE    DEATH 

The  destination  of  the  money  taken  from  us  by  onr 
Providences  is  of  the  highest  importance.  It  is  wholly 
destructive  to  us  to  be  robbed  of  life  and  evolution. 
What  do  the  rich  do  with  it?  They  burn  it.  It  goes 
up  in  a  bonfire  of  vanities,  dissipation,  palate  and 
debauch.  Kich  women  providences  burn  it  in  fashion- 
able society  bouts,  which  are  female  prize  fights.  Fash- 
ionable society  is  the  profession  of  defectives.  All  Four 
Hundreds  are  rotten  mental  defectives.  They  do  what 
people  of  human  size  and  decent  heart  would  not  do. 

The  good  deeds  of  Mrs.  John  Jacob  Astor  in  one 
month  of  the  winter  when  the  poor  were  dying  of  want 
were  listed  as  follows :  "One  large  ball  of  her  own,  two 
large  formal  dinners  and  a  dozen  small  affairs  of  her 
own;  she  figured  in  the  published  invitation  lists  of 
seven  large  dances,  six  formal  dinners,  three  luncheons 
and  three  weddings ;  she  attended  the  opera  eight  times 
and  was  present  at  a  number  of  afternoon  musicales." 
This  is  a  single  mode  in  which  the  bread  of  life  and 
development  of  the  poor  is  burned  by  the  rich.  A  promi- 
nent New  York  doctor  gave  the  report  for  publication 
"that  many  fashionable  dressmakers  now  keep  on  hand 
a  supply  of  wines  and  liquors  for  the  use  of  their  cus- 
tomers. The  drinks  were  not  sold,  but  were  served  in 
lieu  of  tea  or  the  like.  He  said  that  this  was  only  a 
phase  of  the  prevalent  indulgence  in  alcoholic  liquors 
by  the  average  society  woman."* 

Mrs.  Kussell  Sage  confirms  this:  *"Drinking  is  in- 
dulged in  to  an  appalling  extent  by  women  of  the  wealthy 
idle  class,  and  their  daughters  are  following  in  their 


*  Philadelphia  Bulletin,  Feb.  20,  '03. 
**In  November,  '05,  North  American  Review, 


DO    WE    LIVE    IN    A    SOCIAL    SEWER?  193 

footsteps.  *  *  *  This  class  is  surrounded  with  a 
certain  glamour  that  those  not  so  high  up  in  the  so-called 
'social  scale'  mistake  for  something  genuine,  but  which 
is  the  veriest  sham.  Bear  in  mind  that  I  refer  to  no 
set  or  clique,  but  to  a  condition  manifestd  in  all  parts 
of  the  country."  The  professional  wealth-wasters  gam- 
ble, too :  "Week-end  parties  have  bridge  whist  as  a  sole 
purpose.  Eooms  are  hired  and  furnished,  in  all  parts 
of  New  York  City,  by  fashionable  young  women  who 
do  nothing  but  gamble  there." 

These  rich  defectives  are  simply  a  kept  class  to 
eat  and  drink  up  wealth  while  the  poor  starve 
and  to  rot  the  rest  of  the  nation  by  evil  example. 
Mrs.  Sage  sees  this  of  drink:  "Now  the  persons  of  this 
class  are  widely  imitated.  If  they  drink  it  is  considered 
smart  to  do  so,  and  others  follow  suit.  If  they  smoke 
cigarettes  other  girls  do  the  same."  But  this  is  only  a 
minute  part  of  their  harm ;  being  first  stupidly  made  rich 
by  deceived  society  and  then  stupidly  set  on  a  pinnacle, 
they  defile  every  standard  and  pervert  every  ideal  down 
through  all  strata  of  the  people  to  the  last.  And  they 
will  do  so  as  long  as  a  rich  caste ,  inevitably  and  inher- 
ently icorthless  and  corrupt.,  is  permitted  to  exist. 

As  a  natural  product  of  education  providenced  by 
the  rich,  literary  scribblers  defend  the  right  of  these 
defectives  to  burn  wealth  and  kill  the  poor.  Harry 
Thurston  Peck  cries  with  fine  chivalry,  "As  for  the  idle 
rich,  we  say :  Let  them  alone,  or  at  any  rate  treat  them 
sympathetically.  They  are  doing  the  best  they  can,  and 
we  have  always  hoped  that  in  the  end  they  would  suc- 
ceed in  establishing  upon  a  permanent  basis  a  class 
whose  influence  should  make  for  grace  of  life,  and  act 


194  MARRIAGE    AND    RACE    DEATH 

as  a  leaven  upon  our  national  crudity."*  And  D.  Parkes 
Cadman,  (a  New  York  divine),  exclaims  to  a  convoca- 
tion of  young  men:  "You  want  to  be  patient  with  the 
millionaire ;  he  is  a  new  product,  so  don't  cuff  him  around 
too  hard." 

For  the  poor  who  are  slain  in  New  York  tenements 
by  the  Astor  rentals  it  is  buying  a  "leaven  upon  our 
national  crudity"  rather  dear.  Part  of  the  wealth  of 
our  butterfly  Astors  and  many  other  millionaires  comes 
from  tenements  where  the  poor  putrefy  for  the  purpose 
of  doing  away  with  our  national  crudity.  "There  is 
hardly  a  factor  connected  with  the  public  health  of  New 
York  more  important  than  the  condition  of  the  tenement 
houses,"  the  N.  Y.  Medical  Journal  says.  Dr.  S.  A. 
Knopf,  specialist  in  tuberculosis,  exclaimed  in  an  address 
that  "he  would  like  to  take  some  well  known  philan- 
thropists to  the  densely  crowded  tenement  districts  of 
New  York,  and  show  them  the  sufferings  of  mind 
and  body  of  the  consumptive,  who  must  die,  not  because 
his  disease  was  incurable^  but  because  there  was  no  place 
to  cure  it"*  Would  it  not  be  an  act  of  rudimentary 
wisdom  for  New  York  to  take  the  rentals  which  her  dis- 
solute society  women  are  burning  in  vanities  and  drinks 
to  abolish  national  crudity,  and  employ  it  in  abolishing 
disease  and  saving  the  people's  lives?  There  are  those 
who  can  endure  a  little  crudity  better  than  death,  and 
we  observe  that  the  cultured  do  not  offer  their  lives  to 
abolish  the  crudity  of  the  rich. 

Our  rich  make  fortunes  on  the  investment  of  nothing : 
if  our  poor  who  have  so  much  of  nothing  could  but  earn 

*In  The  Bookman,  Dec.,   '02. 

*Correspondence  of  Philadelphia  Ledger,  Feb.  11,   '03. 


DO    WE   LIVE   IN    A    SOCIAL    SEWER?  195 

their  living  in  the  same  way.  "On  an  investemnt  of 
nothing  the  latest  syndicate  formed  by  J.  Pierpont 
Morgan  to-day  received  a  profit  of  f 302,300."  (Phila- 
delphia North  American,  Aug.  16,  '02. )  Morgan  formed 
a  syndicate  to  take  over  the  Monon  Railroad  for  another 
Railway  system.  The  underwriting  syndicate  did  not 
have  to  subscribe  a  dollar,  but  having  agreed  to  do  so 
if  necessary  $302,300  were  divided  among  its  members 
as  a  reward.  We  understand  from  this  where  the  people's 
money  goes.  This  same  Morgan  invited  a  score  of  lead- 
ing Tammany  politicians  and  office-holders  for  a  cruise 
on  his  yacht,  the  Corsair,  at  the  beginning  of  the  late 
Mayoralty  campaign  in  New  York,  giving  them  a 
magnificent  feast  of  food  and  costly  drinks.*  Morgan 
is  outwardly  a  Republican,  but  as  he  can  buy  up 
Democratic  politicians  like  potatoes  or  dirt,  it  is  indiffer- 
ent to  him  which  wins.  The  politicians  protect  him 
in  the  hocus-pocus  called  business  in  which  he  makes 
a  profit  of  $300,000  by  winking.  The  money  eventually 
comes  from  the  people  who  travel,  who  have  to  pay  it 
in  excess  price  of  railway  fares.  As  we  see  the  million- 
aires' palace  yachts  on  the  Hudson,  we  know  we  built 
them  and  that  they  are  ours. 

The  rich  burn  our  wealth  not  only  in  palatial  pomp 
and  furious  saturnalia  of  feast  and  drink,  but  in  race- 
enfeebling  licentiousness.  A  large  part  of  rich  society 
is  simply  a  promiscuous  harem.  A  large  part  of  the 
rich  have  nothing  to  do  but  to  seek  and  wear  out  all 
possible  new  sensations.  The  sexual  sensation  is  one  of 
the  most  prolific  of  novelty  as  toward  fresh  virgins  and 


*N.  Y.  World,  Oct.  29,    '05. 


196  MARRIAGE    AND    RACE    DEATH 

other  men's  wives.  In  so  far  as  this  is  done  all  who 
believe  in  keeping  up  a  rich  social  class  support  a 
brothel.  They  keep  and  pamper  a  specialized  variety  of 
worthless  idlers  who  have  nothing  to  do  but  sensualize 
and  sexualize.  By  those  who  have  some  insight  into 
New  York  fine  life  it  is  described  as  out-Sodoming  Sodom. 
What  have  the  average  fatted  millionaires  to  do  when 
sated  of  travel,  autos  and  their  Sybarite  clubs,  but  to 
deprave  each  other's  wives,  debauch  middle-class  women 
idiotized  by  their  money  glamour,  and  prostitute  slave 
working  girls.  In  keeping  a  rich  class  this  is  what  we 
keep  and  conduct. 

The  effects  of  the  debauchery  may  be  final  family 
extinction.  "It  is  a  well  recognized  fact  and  needs  no 
verification  that  the  poor  are  more  prolific  than  the 
rich ;  the  reasons  are  also  well  known,"  says  the  Journal 
of  the  American  Medical  Association.  "According  to 
the  New  York  World  of  November  30,  out  of  55,000 
babies  born  in  the  Borough  of  Manhattan  only  13  came 
to  fashionable  Fifth  Avenue  below  Ninety-fifth  Street. 
That  is  only  13  babies  in  a  thoroughfare  bordered  by  the 
homes  of  the  well-to-do  for  four  and  one-half  miles."* 
The  Journal  thinks  that  as  the  rich  are  much  away 
from  home  their  birthrate  may  be  greater  than  appears. 
Perhaps  they  bear  26  babies  a  year  instead  of  13.  De- 
bauchery, incapability,  and  dislike  of  children  are  the 
three  causes  of  their  barrenness. 

If  these  families  died  out  absolutely  and  instantly 
when  they  reach  wealth  and  begin  degeneration  it  would 
be  a  good  thing,  though  wholly  bad  that  society  is  a 
machinery  for  producing  a  wealthy  degenerate  class  that 

*Dec.  24,  '05. 


DO    WE   LIVE   IN    A   SOCIAL   SEWER?  197 

ought  to  die.  But  they  do  not  instantly  expire,  they 
linger  on  profligate  and  brutalized,  scourging  and 
bestializing  the  rest  And  when  one  family  of  them 
deceases  another  secures  the  wealth  and  continues  the 
social  brutalization.  For  these  rich  are  the  kings  of  life 
and  society,  and  the  general  effects  of  their  debauch- 
ment,  whether  visible  or  invisible,  are  all-pervasive  and 
enormous.  Society  gives  them  wealth  to  burn  in  de- 
bauching themselves  and  debauching  society.  This 
reveals  society's  brain.  If  society  is  so  fond  of  them  as 
to  give  them  its  wealth  to  debauch  it,  why  should  they 
not  debauch  it?  The  process  is  the  essence  of  race 
suicide. 

A  few  years  ago  a  workingman  brought  his  family 
from  Kussia  to  live  in  Paris.  He  applied  to  a  rich  iron 
manufacturer  for  work,  who  depreciated  his  abilities, 
but  said  he  would  try  him  over  one  of  the  furnaces 
and  if  he  did  well  there  would  promote  him  to  something 
better.  Exhausting  labor  in  the  intense  heat  soon  pros- 
trated the  man,  and  his  family  were  penniless.  His 
daughter,  a  young  girl,  had  made  the  acquaintance  of 
a  young  Russian  woman  living  in  Paris  with  a  wealthy 
uncle,  and  to  her  the  girl  went  to  solicit  intercession 
with  the  magnate.  They  together  repaired  to  the  manu- 
facturer's home  and  the  young  woman  stated  the  work- 
ingman's  situation  and  asked  that  less  trying  labor 
might  be  given  him.  They  conversed  in  French,  which 
the  working  girl  could  not  understand,  and  in  the  second 
room  away  from  them  with  both  intervening  doors  open 
sat  the  manufacturer's  wife.  The  wealthy  man  did  not 
deign  to  recognize  the  presence  of  the  working  girl  or  to 
refer  to  what  had  been  said  to  him,  but  addressing  the 


198  MARRIAGE    AND    RACE    DEATH 

young  Russian  woman  he  said:  "You  Russian  girls  do 
not  take  advantage  of  your  freedom.  You  could  have 
anything  you  want/'  and  after  an  attempt  to  parry  him 
on  her  part  he  came  openly  to  the  point,  saying  that 
he  had  a  handsome  villa  at  Nice,  where,  if  she  would 
go  and  live,  she  could  have  everything  she  could  imagine 
or  desire.  This  respectable  man's  wife  sat  almost 
within  hearing  of  the  conversation  as  he  made  these  over- 
tures; he  had  never  seen  his  desired  victim  before,  but 
he  had  the  rich  man's  calm  conviction  that  he  could  buy 
her  body.  A  conviction  resting  on  the  fact  that  such 
numbers  of  girls  of  all  classes  are  regularly  bought  by 
rich  profligates.  Bought  by  the  luxuries  these  profli- 
gates are  able  to  command  with  the  wealth  they  take 
from  the  people.  The  manufacturer  did  nothing  for 
his  sick  employe.  The  foregoing  narrative  was  given  the 
writer  by  the  woman  to  whom  the  proposition  was  made. 
And  the  man  is  a  type  of  a  great  section  of  the  rich  in 
every  country.  They  burn  wealth,  and  in  doing  it  burn 
themselves  and  burn  society. 

While  Morgan  cleared  $300,000  investing  nothing, 
Mrs.  Emily  Griffiths  reaped  the  following  from  a  similar 
outlay:  "Worn  out  and  discouraged  by  her  efforts  to 
provide  for  her  six  children,  with  her  husband  in  the 
Manhattan  State  Hospital  for  the  Insane,  and  the  fam- 
ily treasury  empty,  Mrs.  Emily  Griffiths,  thirty-four 
years  old,  killed  herself  in  a  bedroom  in  her  flat  at  225 
West  Thirteenth  Street,  early  this  forenoon,  by  cutting 
her  throat  with  her  husband's  razor."  (New  York 
Globe,  June  22,  '05.)  She  was  respectable;  she  had 
supplied  the  declining  American  race  with  six  children ; 
she  did  not  drink ;  she  was  religious;  the  family  had  been 


t>0    WE   LiVE   IN    A    SOCIAL   SEWER?  199 

thrifty  and  had  occupied  the  house  where  she  cut  her 
throat  for  ten  years;  her  husband  had  been  sexton  of  a 
Presbyterian  Church  and  assistant  janitor  of  a  public 
school  until  a  few  weeks  before  the  tragedy,  when  he 
became  insane.  It  had  taken  all  his  money  to  care 
decently  for  his  family  so  that  he  had  none  saved.  All 
this  is  interesting,  for  he  is  the  typical  American  citizen 
of  the  great  faithful,  respectful,  unrebellious,  hard- 
grubbing,  sheeplike,  stupid,  common  class.  The  wealth 
this  class  creates  and  which  this  man's  wife  cut  her 
throat  for  not  getting  goes  to  the  rich  incendiaries  to  be 
burned  in  pomp,  vanity,  profligacy,  debauchery,  drink. 

Numerous  friends  of  Cornelius  Vanderbilt,  the  papers 
were  lately  saying,  "are  congratulating  him  on  his  recent 
successes  in  the  stock  market,  where,  it  is  said,  he  had 
added  within  the  last  eight  months  nearly  f  1,750,000  to 
his  fortune."  The  poor  must  cut  their  throats  when  the 
rich  can  thus  take  their  wealth  by  the  chicane  of  finance. 
A  wealthy  Philadelphia  woman  last  winter  made  a  visit 
of  a  few  days  to  Atlantic  City  with  a  party  of  friends. 
Describing  their  pastimes  there  she  said :  "We  went  from 
place  to  place  and  ate  all  day.  There  was  nothing  else 
to  do." 

If  those  who  have  everything  to  eat  and  nothing  to  do 
but  eat  it  would  lift  their  eyes  they  might  see  at  the 
windows  of  their  dining  palaces  gibbering  men  insane 
from  famine,  and  as  they  reach  them  a  crumb  of  cake  to 
assuage  their  tears,  they  might  foresee  a  French  Revolu- 
tion. Daniel  W.  Whiting  (note  the  American  name), 
of  Dudley,  Massachusetts,  perched  on  a  railing  in  front 
of  the  Hoffman  House,  New  York,  one  day  last  summer, 
hungrily  watching  the  gorging  eaters  inside,  began  mak- 


200  MARRIAGE    AND    RACE    DEATH 

ing  motions  with  his  hands  as  if  he  were  eating;  he 
would  laugh  gleefully,  lifting  an  imaginary  glass  to  his 
lips  and  wiping  his  mouth  with  an  imaginary  napkin. 
He  wras  raving,  and  they  took  him  away  in  a  Bellevue 
ambulance  to  the  hospital,  where  Dr.  Gillespie  said  he 
was  starving. 

It  is  not  by  fortune  or  by  God's  will  that  this  gibber- 
ing citizen  of  our  country  is  without  bread,  for  his 
share  at  life's  board  has  gone  to  the  rich  to  be  idiotically 
burned  in  fleeing  the  boredom  of  a  super-glutted  exist- 
ence. Said  a  New  York  daily,  June  4,  '05 : 

"An  American  who  had  done  Europe  in  the  conven- 
tional way,  by  train,  boat,  and  diligence,  again  and  again, 
until,  to  use  his  words,  'he  was  sick  of  the  whole  business,' 
was  induced  to  rent  a  car  in  Paris  last  summer  and 
make  a  trip  through  France  and  Switzerland.  He  started 
out  with  the  expectation  of  being  bored.  *  *  *  He 
was  accompanied  by  his  wife,  two  daughters,  and  a 
chauffeur.  They  traveled  easily  and  comfortably  through 
the  most  delightful  European  scenery,  making  from  one 
hundred  to  one  hundred  and  fifty  miles  a  day.  *  *  * 
And  the  memory  of  those  days  was  summed  up  by  the 
entire  party  in  the  single  phrase,  <Oh,  what  appetites  we 
had!'  At  the  end  of  the  journey  this  gentleman  said: 
'I  thought  I  had  everything  in  life  worth  while,  ~but  I 
find  that  there  is  something  still  for  me  to  live  for,  some- 
thing new  and  interesting/" 

Super-saturated  with  his  countrymen's  wealth  this 
member  of  the  dying  American  Greed  Breed  had  ex- 
hausted everything  on  his  jaded  sensibilities,  while  other 
Americans,  reputed  freemen,  lyingly  named  brothers  and 
fellowmen,  patriotic  no  doubt  for  the  same  curious  stars 
and  stripes,  rave  before  sumptuous  eating-house  windows 


DO    WB   LIVE   IN    A    SOCIAL   SB  WEE?  201 

— starving !  Would  it  be  unscientific  to  say  that  we  have 
produced  as  the  American  flower  a  collection  of  biped 
swine,  swilled  with  the  cream  of  wealth,  livid  with  the 
reek  and  ooze  of  clotted  riches,  wallowing  in  the  fat  of 
the  universe  which  they  cannot  wTholly  swallow,  yet  in 
the  malignancy  of  their  swine  souls  snapping  cruelly  at 
the  multitudes  famished  with  need  of  the  simplest  things, 
and  killing  them  with  the  swine  edict  that  they  shall  not 
eat  in  this  world?  This  picture  is  the  sharp-lined  por- 
trayal of  accurate  fact,  a  perfect  drawing  of  American 
society,  not  as  the  paid  buffoons  of  literature  and 
sociology  paint  it  but  as  case  on  case  shows  that  it  is. 
Let  those  who  question  it  disprove  the  pictured  series 
of  damning  verities  here  presented.  "Swine"  is  a  tame 
label  for  those  who  do  what  the  rich  do.  When  a  race 
is  dying  of  a  fact  is  it  harsh  to  affix  the  exact  name  to 
the  disease?  To  speak  the  word  pest,  when  everyone 
knows  it  is  that?  It  is  not  the  word,  leprosy,  that  scars, 
but  the  fact  of  having  it. 

A  millionaire  named  Ziegler  dies  after  accumulating 
a  private  sty  of  thirty  millions,  and  his  young  heir  when 
of  age  will  enjoy  an  income  of  a  million  annually  to 
burn.  Not  long  before  Abe  Siegelbaum,  the  worst  boy 
in  Philadelphia,  died,  and  Ziegler  and  Siegelbaum  go 
back  to  the  unity  of  things  together.  The  history  of  the 
life  and  death  of  this  worst  lad  is  written  in  these 
words:*  "Abe  Siegelbaum,  called  the  worst  boy  in 
Philadelphia  because  of  his  criminal  propensities  at  the 
age  of  13,  is  dead  in  New  York.  He  died  in  a  squalid 
tenement  yesterday,  a  martyr  to  his  love  for  a  sickly 
mother  and  sister.  For  weeks  Abe  had  kept  his  little 


"Philadelphia  Ledger,  March  2,    '05. 


202  MARRIAGE    AND    RACE    DEATH 

family  alive  by  selling  newspapers.  He  was  too  proud 
to  ask  for  assistance,  and  nightly  gave  to  his  mother  and 
sister  the  proceeds  of  each  day's  work.  'I  don't  want 
nuthing  to  eat/  he  would  say  when  his  mother  would 
ask  him  to  share  the  frugal  meals,  for  he  knew  there  was 
hardly  enough  to  go  around.  His  wasted  body,  the  face 
pinched  from  hunger,  was  found  at  the  foot  of  the  tene- 
ment stairway,  where  he  had  fallen  on  his  way  to  the 
shelter  he  called  home.  Starvation  and  exposure  ended 
his  career. 

"Born  in  the  tenement  district,  with  no  one  to  care 
for  him,  his  mother  a  sickly  woman,  most  of  the  time  in 
hospitals,  Abe  Siegelbaum,  when  11  years  old,  made  his 
appearance  here  as  a  street  gamin.  Daring  and  quick- 
witted, he  stopped  at  nothing.  With  the  skill  of  one 
trained  by  a  Fagin,  he  picked  pockets  in  the  crowded 
department  stores.  Then  he  would  steal  away  at  night- 
fall to  give  the  money  to  his  mother.  Young  though  he 
was,  Abe  became  known  to  the  police,  and  was  arrested 
a  score  of  times  for  stealing.  Agents  of  charitable  organ- 
izations interceded  with  the  Court  for  possession  of  the 
boy,  and  he  was  sent  to  the  Baron  de  Hirsch  colony  at 
Woodbine,  N.  J.  In  a  few  days  Abe  escaped.  Mean- 
while his  mother  moved  to  New  York  with  her  daughter. 
There  little  Abe  fled.  His  mother's  health  was  worse, 
and  he  started  in  to  keep  life  within  her.  Day  after 
day  he  denied  his  little  body  the  proper  nourishment,  and 
watched  his  hungry  family  at  mealtimes  until,  starved 
in  mind  and  body,  he  died." 

Here  was  a  brilliant  and  noble  child,  and  Philadel- 
phia and  New  York,  those  cities  stewing  in  wealth  and 
foul  with  rich,  could  do  nothing  but  murder  him.  A 


DO    WE   LIVE   IN    A    SOCIAL   SEWER?  203 

youth  of  high  promise  and  sublime  devotion — Great 
American  Destiny,  utterly  stony  to  him,  turned  its 
grand  world-admired  wheels  and  ground  him  up.  The 
American  Brain  neither  saw  nor  thought  of  him,  as  the 
sottish  brain  of  England  neither  saw  nor  thought  of  its 
Chattertons.  But  the  American  Brain  sees  its  rich 
burning  wealth  in  their  pleasure  orgies  and  pomps 
which  would  save  and  evolve  millions  of  wrecked  chil- 
dren of  the  Republic,  and  adulating  its  sweet  rich  it 
views  with  frozen  indifference  its  best  lives  licked  out 
in  the  Republic's  poverty  hells. 

Is  there  then  any  inducement  for  intelligent  men 
and  women  to  people  up  this  globe  with  the  good  pros- 
pect of  their  children  and  themselves  dying  in  its  sewers? 
Let  us  consult  the  late  J.  A.  Thompson,  whose  body  was 
found  on  a  bench  in  Fairmount  Park,  Philadelphia,  on 
the  17th  of  the  current  August  (1905),  having  taken 
cyanide  of  potassium.  This  letter  was  in  his  pocket:* 

"Philadelphia,  Aug.  16,  1905. 

"I  am  Joseph  Alexander  Thompson,  of  Pittsburg, 
Pa.,  son  of  Andrew  Turley  Thompson,  who  for  years 
was  the  agent  of  the  Young  Men's  Bible  Society  of  Alle- 
gheny County.  My  brother,  William  R.  Thompson,  of 
Sparkill,  knows  my  circumstances  and  will  not  help 
me  or  my  family.  He  married  Mary  Thaw,  daughter 
of  William  Thaw,  who  died  in  Paris.  Mr.  Thaw  was 
second  vice-president  of  the  Pennsylvania  Railroad,  of 
the  firm  of  Mark  &  Thaw,  of  Pittsburg,  and  father  of 
Alice  Thaw,  who  married  the  Earl  of  Yarmouth,  and 
Harry  Thaw,  who  was  supposed  to  be  married  to  Miss 
Evelyn  Nesbitt,  the  concert  artist  model. 


^Printed  in  N.  Y.  Times,  Aug.  18,  and  never  denied  by  the  Thaws. 


204  MARRIAGE    AND    HACK    DEATH 

"I  ain  connected  with.  Harriet  Thaw,  who  lives  on 
Cross  Street,  between  Ninth  and  Tenth,  and  who  was 
allowed  to  live  in  squalor  with  rats  as  her  companions 
by  one  of  our  relatives.  Me  and  mine  are  starving,  and 
have  been  for  the  past  five  months,  but  they  would  not 
help  me.  He  allowed  his  brother,  Dr.  A.  D.  Thompson, 
to  starve  to  death  in  Philadelphia  in  1879  or  1880 ;  and 
also  his  brother,  J.  R.  Thompson  of  Penn  Avenue,  Pitts- 
burg,  to  fall  so  low  that  he  had  to  send  him  to  Florida, 
where  he  died,  and  still  he  gives  $50,000  to  the  W.  &  I. 
Library. 

"What  have  I  as  his  brother  to  look  for?  /  have 
been  a  slave  to  hard  work  for  forty  years,  and  as  Vir- 
ginia says:  'There  is  no  way  left  but  this/ 

"JOSEPH  A.  THOMPSON." 

The  point  vital  to  our  panorama  of  the  American 
brain  is  not  that  he  had  these  rich  Thaw  relatives  who 
marry  into  feculent  nobilities,  which  half-paid  American 
workingmen  then  support,  but  that  he  was  an  American 
citizen  with  three  children  and  a  wife,  who  had  to  kill 
himself  because  after  forty  years  of  toil  he  could  not 
feed  them.  Shall  we  advise  men  to  wed  and  breed  to 
beat  the  seas  of  want  and  sail  home  at  last  to  the  harbor 
of  suicide?  When  told  of  the  tragedy  the  man's  wife 
became  hysterical.  "The  Coroner  was  able  to  get  little 
information  from  the  heart-broken  woman,  though  she 
told  him  that  her  husband  had  not  had  work  for  six 
months,  and  that  the  family  had  at  times  nearly  starved." 
If  this  were  an  exception !  But  I  have  shown  that  it  is 
one  of  the  constants  of  the  Free  Republic.  For  armies 
of  its  men  and  children  the  free  republic  has  become  a 
free  hell.  It  is  one  of  the  results  of  making  the  collective 


DO    WE   LIVE   IN    A    SOCIAL   SEWER?  205 

American  people  a  sty  for  the  dropsical  fattening  of  a 
small  herd  of  biped  swine. 

Here  is  another  case  from  the  funereal  series,  which 
happened  in  New  York  on  the  day  Thompson  did  away 
with  himself.  This  was  Joseph  Uhlan,  a  drug  clerk, 
seeking  employment,  unsuccessful,  penniless,  with  a 
wife  in  New  Orleans,  to  whom  he  decided  that  he  could 
not  return  with  the  story  of  failure.  He  was  seen  "stab- 
bing himself  frantically  in  the  left  breast  with  a  knife" 
in  Central  Park ;  a  policeman  reached  him  before  he  had 
finished  the  work ;  he  was  taken  to  the  hospital  and  that 
night  it  was  said  that  he  had  a  fighting  chance  to  live. 
— —  Would  you  counsel  men  to  marry  and  bring  chil- 
dren into  the  nation  when  men  who  have  done  so  are 
daily  coming  to  this? 

Suicide.  Eheinold  Stasch,  28  years  old,  in  New  York, 
Nov.  29,  '05.  Could  not  get  work,  had  pawned  clothes, 
had  40  cents  in  pocket.  Incendiary.  Mrs.  Win.  England, 
in  Bellefontaine,  Ohio,  Nov.  8,  ?05,  mother  of  7  children, 
one  of  them  4  weeks  old.  Husband  in  prison,  she  burned 
her  house  for  the  insurance.  Would  not  have  needed  to 
had  she  not  committed  the  error  of  bearing  7  American 
citizens.  Hanging.  Win.  Rock,  aged  81,  and  Albee  Oakes, 
aged  87,  friends,  who  had  suffered  reverses,  hanged  them- 
selves by  agreement  in  Buffalo,  Nov.  8.  Evicted — As- 
tors'  cousin.  Carl  F.  Astor,  wife  and  two  children,  evicted 
from  tenement  in  East  New  York,  Dec.  27,  '05,  for  want 
of  $10  to  pay  rent.  No  fuel  in  house,  not  a  cent  of 
money,  no  prospects.  Boy  15  years  old,  cripple,  close 
resemblance  to  John  Jacob  Astor,  one  of  New  York's 
kings.  Mrs.  John  Jacob  we  reviewed  in  the  flush  of  her 
swinish  social  glory,  burning  wTealth.  Her  starving 


206  MARRIAGE    AND    RACE    DEATH 

cousin  said :  "For  about  ten  years  now  we  have  had  lit- 
tle besides  poverty,  discomfort  and  trouble." 

Family  starving,  husband  in  jail  for  being  honest. 
Barnet  Goldberg,  in  N.  Y.  Tombs  for  owing  city  $14, 
son's  board  in  correctional  institution,  Sept.,  '05.  Fam- 
ily of  eight  lived  in  two  dark  rooms  in  Cherry  Street. 
Goldberg's  eight-year-old  boy  caught  by  policeman  with 
cheap  watch  in  his  hand,  just  after  a  store  had  been 
robbed.  Boy  said  other  boys,  running  from  police,  had 
thrust  it  upon  him.  Boy  sent  to  prison,  Court  ruled 
father  must  pay  $2  a  week  for  his  keep  there.  Father 
promised.  Found  family  would  starve  if  he  did  so. 
Broke  promise.  Was  sent  to  jail,  there  to  lie  useless  un- 
til arrears  of  f  14  are  paid.  No  chance  to  pay.  Family 
now  starving.*  Same  law  and  same  Eepublic  leaves 
McCurdy,  Morgan,  Harriman,  Eockefeller,  Eogers  and 
Eyan  running  loose.  Bepublic  toadies  to  and  worships 
these  thieves. 

On  one  side  of  the  American  escutcheon  we  have  a 
festival  of  super-glutted  swine,  burning  wealth  in  riotous 
saturnalia;  on  the  reverse  side  we  have  the  American 
people  who  supply  the  wealth  to  be  burned  raving  mad 
with  starvation,  shooting  themselves  from  hunger,  tak- 
ing poison  because  they  cannot  earn  bread  to  feed  their 
children.  Yet  American  men  and  women  are  solemnly 
adjured  by  those  who  profit  on  this  condition,  to  breed 
more  babes.  Every  babe  that  is  born  is  a  slave  chain 
fastened  on  the  father  and  mother.  Bightly  built  brains 
would  first  extinguish  the  swine  and  breed  mankind 
afterwards,  when  it  could  be  a  decent  mankind. 


*N.  Y.  World,  Sept.  04,   '05. 


DO    WE   LIVE   IN    A    SOCIAL   SEWER?  207 

Senator  Clark  of  Montana  "has,  according  to  the  best 
estimates,  an  income  of  f  11,000,000  a  year  to  dispose  of." 
(N.  T.  Evening  Post,  May  24,  '05.) 

An  emaciated  man  with  "pinched  and  drawn  fea- 
tures" was  found  in  Mulberry  Bend  Park,  N.  Y.  The 
policeman  shook  him  and  found  him  dead.  Dr.  Merrill 
of  a  nearby  hospital  said  he  had  probably  starved  to 
death.  This  was  July  9,  1905. 

Hyde,  the  Equitable  grafter,  sold  his  private  car  "Bay 
Shore,"  in  August.  It  cost  him  $50,000  of  the  people's 
money.  It  contained  "an  observation  room,  smoking 
room,  dining  room,  kitchen  and  other  rooms." 

Inspector  H.  M.  Lechstrecker,  reporting  to  the  New 
York  State  Board  of  Charities  in  March,  1905,  says  he 
'found  that  out  of  10,707  school  children  only  1,885, 
or  less  than  one-fifth,  began  the  day's  work  with  an  ade- 
quate breakfast.  Four  hundred  and  thirty-nine  children 
frequently  came  to  school  without  any  breakfast  at  all. 
Nearly  1,000  children,  whose  anaemic  condition  led  to 
an  investigation  by  their  teachers,  never  had  for  their 
morning  meal  more  than  bread  only  or  coffee  only.9 

An  investigator  of  milliners,  robemakers  and  other 
sources  of  such  facts  concludes  that  "6,000  women  of 
New  York  spend  no  less  than  $40,000,000,  an  average  of 
$6,000  each,  on  their  wardrobes."  If  so,  says  a  com- 
mentator, "less  than  one  per  cent,  of  the  women  of  the 
city  squander  on  their  clothes  a  sum  greater  than  is  de- 
voted to  the  city's  gigantic  school  system,  and  nearly 
forty  per  cent,  of  the  entire  municipal  budget."  This 
is  some  of  the  burned  wealth  which  should  go  for  human 
evolution;  it  is  race  nutriment  eaten  out  of  mankind 
by  the  parasite  tapeworm  class.  Yet  feeble  Justice 


208  MARRIAGE    AND    RACE    DEATH 

Holmes  thinks  that  wealth  is  not  dissolved  and  swal- 
lowed. 

A  little  of  this  would  have  saved  Mrs.  Theresa  Rose  of 
215  East  Twenty-eighth  Street,  New  York,  who,  ill  and 
helpless,  was  evicted  October  17,  1905,  and  died  on  the 
floor  in  the  dark  hall  of  her  tenement;  the  6,000  rich 
stone-souled  women  murder  such. 

More  than  $43,000,000  of  the  American  people's 
money  is  invested  in  pleasure  yachts  for  the  parasites, 
$6,000,000  more  in  their  club  houses  and  club  property, 
and  they  spend  every  year  for  pleasure  in  yachting  an 
additional  $8,000,000.  There  are  3,118  recorded  high- 
priced  yachts  owned  by  our  wealth-burning  rich;  ar- 
ranged in  line  they  would  reach  77  miles.* 

We  live  in  a  social  sewer  like  rats.  Large  holy  rats 
eat  the  weak  ones.  These  large  rats  are  holy  church- 
going  beasts,  protected  by  the  sleek  skin  of  religion.  We 
do  not  rebel.  We  do  not  rise  in  a  whirlwind  of  revolu- 
tion and  grind  our  environment  to  dust  and  break  out 
into  the  glad  light  of  freedom.  Why? 


*Arthur  F.  Aldridge  in  Pearson's  Magazine,  June,  1905. 


CHAPTER  XXIII. 

HIGHER     BRAIN     AND     REVOLUTION. 

We  do  not  break  from  our  slimy  prison  because  we 
are  saturated  with  a  solemn  conviction  of  the  sin  of 
revolution.  Masters  have  saturated  masses  with  this 
dogma.  It  is  not  a  sin  for  milliards  of  men  to  be  dying 
sewer  rats,  it  is  not  a  sin  for  master  cannibal  rats  to  eat 
them,  but  it  is  mortal  sin  for  the  myriads  to  destroy 
their  masters  and  break  up  into  the  light  of  day.  So 
masters  teach. 

Revolution  is  the  highest  human  religion.  All  the 
heaven  man  has  ever  gained  has  been  by  revolution. 
Love  never  restrained  the  rattlesnake  from  striking, 
love  never  withheld  the  rich  from  enslaving.  Wherever 
man  has  gained  an  inch  of  freedom  he  compelled  his  rat- 
tlesnake masters  to  yield  it.  The  Love  doctrine  of  the 
masters  is:  Love  me  and  I'll  eat  you  peaceably;  Love 
me  not  and  I'll  torture  you  first  and  eat  you  afterwards. 
Love  is  the  shrewdest  stratagem  of  the  brutalest  haters : 
the  holy  master  sewer-rats  love,  but  what  they  love  is 
their  daily  dinner  on  the  other  sewer  rats.  And  they 
get  it  because  they  have  convinced  the  eaten  that  it  is 
holier  to  love  the  cannibals  that  eat  them  than  it  is  to 
kill  them. 


210  MARRIAGE    AND    RACE    DEATH 

Revolution  is  not  a  mere  incident  and  occasional 
helper  of  evolution:  it  is  in  man  the  main  thing:  it 
breaks  the  path  and  lets  evolution  follow  along.  With- 
out revolution  to  blast  out  the  rugged  impediments,  evo- 
lution stands  forever  helpless  and  idle.  Evolution  with- 
out revolution  is  an  abortion  of  scientific  imagination. 
Science  has  courage  to  be  honest  about  microbes,  but  it 
has  not  courage  to  be  honest  about  man.  Man  virtually 
has  no  progress  because  his  brute  masters,  kings  and 
the  rich,  have  seared  his  eyes  to  the  vast  mission  of  revo- 
lution. 

The  masters  of  man  have  received  but  the  least  of 
the  lessons  man  should  have  given  them.  The  French 
Revolution  was  but  a  contracted  county  brush  to  what 
was  needed.  To  show  masters  that  they  should  not 
slaughter  mankind  ad  libitum,  a  few  masters  were 
killed:  it  needed  the  killing  of  many  of  them  in  every 
country  of  Europe  to  make  an  impression.  Because  they 
did  not  get  this  lesson  they  have  been  killing  the  people 
almost  as  hard  as  before  ever  since. 

The  relation  of  this  question  to  brain  and  race  is, 
that  we  must  somehow  plant  enough  more  brain  in  man 
for  him  to  grasp  the  stupendous  significance  of  revolu- 
tion and  use  it.  More  brain  would  show  him  the  arch 
fact  that  revolution  is  the  motor  of  evolution  and  that 
he  is  the  ruling  force  of  the  former.  Through  it  he  can 
start  the  ponderous  inert  wheels  of  progress,  but  he  can- 
not start  them  directly.  Revolution  is  the  middle  term 
between  man  and  the  gigantic  nature  forces  by  which 
he  develops:  he  cannot  yet  reach  these  forces  with  his 
own  hand,  but  must  play  upon  the  keyboard  of  revolu- 
tion, when  the  mighty  fugue  of  progress  will  sound 


HIGHER    BRAIN    AND    REVOLUTION  211 

through  the  organ  of  life.  A  series  of  revolutions  or 
a  world  revolution  inaugurating  the  doom  of  masters, 
will  bring  man  nearer  the  springs  of  nature,  enabling 
him  through  greater  brain  to  move  nature  directly.  But 
now  there  is  call  for  a  grand  break  up  and  burial  of  the 
past.  There  is  call  for  an  end  of  pleading  for  rights, 
and  for  their  taking. 

Austria  is  showing  what  human  sewer  rats  can  do 
when  they  revolt.  Suffrage  in  Austria  has  been  a  trav- 
esty. "Every  Austrian  male  over  24  years  of  age  has 
a  vote,  but  the  voters  are  divided  into  five  classes  and 
the  votes  cast  by  certain  classes,  notably  the  landed  pro- 
prietors, various  chambers  of  commerce  and  urban 
dwellers,  are  infinitely  more  effective  in  securing  the 
election  of  a  deputy  than  the  votes  cast  by  the  ordinary 
people,  to  the  extent  even  that  sometimes  a  dozen  land- 
owners' votes  count  as  much  as  300,000  votes  cast  by  the 
ordinary  people."  It  was  senseless  for  the  people  to 
'beg  for  an  equal  ballot.  On  the  28th  of  November,  1905, 
while  Parliament  sat  in  Vienna,  175,000  men  and  women 
marched  past  the  Parliament  building,  each  wearing  a 
red  cloth  band,  bearing  words  imperatively  demanding 
equal  suffrage.  Grim  determination  sat  on  their  faces. 
This  was  revolution.  It  forewarned  the  masters  that 
the  erstwhile  passive  sewer  rats  would  rise  and  take 
their  rights  and  pay  their  tyrants  with  death.  Never 
had  such  a  thing  been  seen  before  in  Austria.  Under 
this  ultimatum  of  revolution  the  premier  promised  to 
bring  in  a  bill  providing  for  a  "full,  free,  universal, 
equal,  and  direct"  suffrage. 

Scullions,  you  can  starve  like  rats  if  you  will,  or 
you  can  revolt  and  have  everything. 


212  MABRIAGB    AND    KACE    DEATH 

One  riot  impresses  the  rock-hearted  rich  more  than 
ten  million  prayers  to  them  or  God.  On  November  5, 
thousands  of  Socialists  held  universal  suffrage  demon- 
strations in  Prague  and  rioted  all  day.  At  one  meet- 
ing the  crowd  hooted  the  police  and  fired  on  them. 
Troops  had  to  be  called  to  quell  the  mob.  "A  barricade 
was  erected  by  the  demonstrators,  which  the  troops 
stormed  and  destroyed.  Mobs,  driven  from  one  point, 
constantly  assembled  at  another.  Kioting  continued  in 
the  suburbs  until  late  in  the  evening.  Fully  50,000 
demonstrators  took  part  in  the  riots."  The  sewer  rats 
of  the  world  have  been  numb  and  dumb  so  long  that 
such  manly  behavior  as  this  seems  like  a  quaking  of  the 
universe.  It  alone  makes  the  souls  of  robber  capitalists 
and  kings  tremble.  It  is  the  knell  cashiering  them  from 
their  bloodstained  thrones.  Eevolution  is  breath  and 
life  to  suffocating  mankind. 

"In  the  crowd  which  come  to  my  tent  there  seems  to 
be  an  intellectual  darkness  that  I  hardly  think  could  be 
equaled  in  India,"  said  one  of  the  New  York  City  tent 
missionaries  before  the  Evangelistic  Committee.  "I  said 
at  Chicago  in  one  instance  that  it  was  a  case  of  revival 
or  revolution  with  a  certain  element  in  this  country,  and 
I  think  that  applies  to  certain  spots  in  New  York." 

This  rarely  illuminating  statement  shows  how  profit- 
able a  measure  it  is  for  the  rich  to  pour  money  into 
religion.  If  the  people  get  religion  they  will  go  with- 
out property  and  the  parasites  can  have  it.  Eeligion 
is  the  Parasite  Protector.  Give  the  "ignorant  masses"  a 
revival  and  they  will  glorify  God  for  the  privilege  of 
pails.  The  wealthy  show  serpentine  wisdom  in 


HIGHER    BRAIN    AND    REVOLUTION  213 

pouring  carloads  of  their  bloody-plunder  into  Christian- 
ity. 

Last  winter  at  the  new  St.  Eegis  Hotel  in  New  York 
a  little  dinner  was  given  in  the  white  marble  room,  with 
all  the  service  of  gold.  "No  other  metal  was  in  sight." 
Gold  candelabra  lighted  the  scene  and  "even  the  trays 
were  gold."  "The  favors  were  gold  clocks,  four  inches 
high,  for  the  women,  and  gold  boutonniere  vases  for  the 
men."  While  a  revolution  is  brewing  among  the  bar- 
barian masses,  stirred  into  frenzy  and  fury,  what  did 
this  little  orgy  cost.  $50,000,  it  was  said.  There  were 
but  36  guests,  and  each  consumed  nearly  $1,400.  After 
the  revolution  which  these  infamies  will  bring,  thou- 
sands of  little  children  will  not  go  to  school  in  New 
York  without  a  morsel  of  food  in  them.  Revivals  of 
sham  religion  will  not  stave  off  this  revolution,  because 
while  densely  ignorant  evangelically  the  people  know 
that  their  heart's  fluid  is  stolen  by  these  parasite  rich. 

That  the  American  brain  does  not  perceive  this  deadly 
impasse  and  save  itself  from  bloody  revolution  by  extinc- 
tion of  the  robber  caste,  is  explainable  by  minute  brain 
anatomy. 

William  Waldorf  Astor  robs  the  working  classes  of 
this  country  of  dazzling  sums  to  burn  on  his  English 
estates.  He  is  restoring  an  ancient  castle  and  building 
an  entire  Tudor  village  with  the  funds  given  him  by 
American  workingmen,  who  kindly  starve,  dying  pauper- 
ized to  delight  him. 

The  masses  of  London  are  at  length  contemplating 
revolution.  Lady  Mary  Hamilton,  the  greatest  English 
heiress,  has  just  come  of  age  with  a  net  income  of  $570,- 
000  a  year.  She  is  queen  of  an  island  of  5,000  people. 


214  MARRIAGE    AND    RACE    DEATH 

The  London  mob  marched  through  the  city  on  November 
5  in  a  tremendous  procession,  singing  the  "Marseillaise." 
They  purposed  to  show  the  wealthy  drones  in  the  West 
End  (London's  Fifth  Avenue)  what  a  violent  looting 
excursion  may  later  do;  they  marched  to  the  inefficient 
Balfour,  and  thirty  women,  "pale,  lean,  wearing  tattered 
clothes,  some  bearing  in  their  arms  anaemic  children/' 
went  in  to  him  as  a  delegation,  pleading  to  have  their 
lives  spared.  "Come  and  live  among  us  for  a  few  months 
and  see  for  yourself  our  desperate  condition !"  was  their 
cry  when  he  responded  to  them  in  "a  speech  of  despair," 
deploring  their  misery  and  dying,  but  saying  he  could 
do  nothing.  He  begged  them  not  to  think  of  socialistic 
national  workshops  to  keep  them  alive,  because  that 
wrould  injure  the  nation.  The  rich  are  the  nation. 

The  poor  premier  could  do  nothing  without  taking 
back  some  of  the  plunder  stolen  from  the  starvers  by  the 
rich,  and  that  he  could  not  do;  they  would  not  let  him, 
they  would  depose  and  kill  him  like  truly  holy  Christians 
if  he  tried  to. 

"The  thousands  of  wan,  ragged  women  held  a  mass 
meeting  to  hear  the  delegation's  report,  when  again  plain 
threats  of  bloodshed  were  made." 

"The  revolution  in  England  ivill  not  be  behind  the 
revolution  in  Russia  in  winning  the  people's  demands.1" 
said  one  of  the  men,  addressing  them. 

England's  first  need  is  a  thorough  revolution.  Col. 
Henry  Smith,  a  recent  Police  Commissioner  of  the  City 
of  London,  says  of  London  business  men:  "Were  there 
an  official  in  the  city  similar  to  the  Procurator  Fiscal 
in  Scotland,  half  the  gentlemen  one  sees  in  the  morning 
tumbling  out  of  trains  at  Moorgate  Street  or  the  Mansion 


HIGHER    BRAIN    AND    REVOLUTION  215 

House,  from  Bayswater  and  Putney,  intent  on  picking 
their  neighbors'  pockets,  would  be  engaged  in  the  more 
congenial  occupation  of  picking  oakum."  These  thieves 
ply  their  daily  trade  because  there  has  been  no  revolu- 
tion to  teach  them  the  fate  proper  to  robbers  and  starvers 
of  the  poor.  A  grade  better  English  brain  would  purge 
these  pious  crooks  (for  they  are  all  pious)  out  by  revolu- 
tion. The  English  wealthy  live  for  sport  and  the  Eng- 
lish masses  die  to  sustain  their  sport;  these  wrealthy  are 
the  national  cancer  I  have  described,  and  the  knife  of 
revolution  should  be  used  upon  them  to  save  society. 

Charles  Kenouvri£r  said  concerning  France:  "The 
middle  classes  (bourgeoisie)  have  not  kept  their 
promises;  they  have  worked  only  for  themselves.  Morally 
they  have  fallen  so  low  that  they  will  never  be  able  to 
rise  again.  They  are  essentially  selfish.  The  only  hope 
to  be  had  is  in  the  people.  And  I  call  people  all  those 
who  work — peasants,  workmen,  artists,  or  scholars.  It 
is  these  who  constitute,  who  ought  to  constitute,  a  de- 
mocracy." 

In  England  the  middle  classes  became  pickpockets: 
in  America  they  organized  robbery  into  science,  produc- 
ing the  milliardaires,  who  have  brought  the  masses  to 
starvation  and  this  country  also  to  the  edge  of  a  Hunger 
Eevolution.  Belmont  and  Eyan  have  poured  f  108,000,- 
000  of  water  into  their  New  York  street  railway  merger. 
This  represents  a  0  of  value  on  which  New  York  citizens 
must  forever  pay  them  dividends.  At  7  per  cent,  it  will 
be  $7,560,000  a  year.  These  men  are  brothers  of  the 
thugs  who  lift  a  citizen's  $7  by  night  at  the  revolver's 
muzzle.  If  they  went  through  New  York  yearly  with 
cannon  and  collected  $8,000,000  it  would  be  just  the 


216  MARRIAGE    AND    RACE    DEATH 

kind  of  crime  they  are  committing.  The  cannon  they 
use  is  our  Law  and  Government,  for  which  we  pay  the 
costs.  This  is  the  last  degradation  of  piracy.  It  is  sub- 
limely strange  that  these  looters  do  not  perceive  that  they 
are  building  the  fires  of  a  hell  in  this  country  which  may 
burn  them. 

There  were  nearly  a  hundred  thousand  men  unem- 
ployed and  leanly  fed  by  charity  in  New  York  last 
winter.  The  Herald  said :  "Between  75,000  and  100,000 
destitute  and  idle  men  are  to-day  dependent  upon  the 
charity  of  the  city  of  New  York.  This  estimate  is  based 
upon  the  records  and  statements  of  those  who  are  hand- 
ling these  men.  Thousands  of  them  who  no  longer  have 
the  few  pennies  for  a  bed  in  the  Bowery  shelters  are 
besieging  the  Municipal  Lodging  House  in  First  Avenue. 
The  hospitals  are  filling  up  with  them.  Hundreds,  self- 
committed,  have  been  sent  to  Blackwell's  Island,  and 
thousands  more  are  still  walking  the  streets  in  search  of 
employment."  (Feb.  12,  '05, ) 

In  addition  to  these  it  was  estimated  that  "there  are 
one  hundred  thousand  families  in  the  city  on  the  very 
verge  of  destitution."  Are  they  drunkards  and  incom- 
petents? William  C.  York,  superintendent  of  a  munici- 
pal lodging  house  said:  "The  large  majority  of  these 
men  are  the  most  respectable,  deserving  class  of  men  I 
have  ever  seen  applying  for  charitable  aid.  Accustomed 
as  I  am  to  dealing  with  the  hard  luck  side  of  life,  the 
condition  of  these  poor  fellows  gives  me  the  blues  all  the 
time.  They  are  men  that  any  humane  person  feels  like 
helping." 

Another  worker  among  the  poor  said:  "There  are 
100,000  families  in  this  city  on  the  brink  of  destitution. 


HIGHER    BRAIN    AND    REVOLUTION  217 

They  are  not  of  the  mendicant  class.  They  are  of  a  class 
peculiar  to  America,  I  might  say  peculiar  to  New  York 
city.  They  have  pride,  they  have  energy,  but  while  their 
earning  capacity  has  been  narrowing  their  living  expenses 
have  increased^  and  the  awful  truth  has  come  to  them 
that  they  are  drifting  into  pauperism.  Their  courage 
is  going — will  soon  be  lost.  It  is  not  a  moral  but  a 
physiological  condition/' 

Now  let  us  fix  our  minds  firmly  on  the  cause  of  these 
hideous  facts.  It  is  our  tapeworm  parasite  rich,  who 
suck  the  nutriment  of  life  from  the  vitals  of  the  masses. 
The  cause  is  the  same  that  has  brought  Russia  to  famine 
in  provinces  involving  many  millions  of  people,  which 
is  that  "the  money  that  was  set  aside  for  the  very  pur- 
pose of  preventing  the  threatened  famine  has  gone  into 
the  pockets  of  greedy  officials"  as  American  wealth 
which  should  feed  and  develop  our  masses  has  gone  into 
the  maws  of  our  greedy  rich  parasitical  swine.  The 
United  States  and  Russia  need  a  purging  revolution 
almost  equally. 

Brain  defects  thus  prevent  needed  revolutions  from 
coming  to  pass.  The  racial  effect  of  a  revolution  is  to 
put  a  destructive  class  down,  stopping  its  work  of  race- 
killing:  maniacs  of  avarice  own  the  United  States  and 
a  revolution  would  remove  them,  opening  freedom  of 
growth  to  the  higher  human  faculties.  The  problem  is 
the  repression  and  extinction  of  these  demoniac  types. 
Revolutions  are  a  necessity  with  modern  society  and  man 
as  they  are.  The  parasite  class  should  be  forced  to  live 
in  instant  fear  of  revolutionary  retribution,  until  its 
final  obliteration  transpires.  Its  fatal  venom  is  this 
power  of  making  the  masses  believe  that  revolutions  are 


218  MARRIAGE    AND    RACE    DEATH 

crimes.  How  can  the  British  masses  evolve  while  a 
swinish  higher  class,  living  essentially  for  sport  alone, 
exists?  And  how  in  America  can  the  people  evolve  while 
a  swinish  capitalist  class,  living  for  splendor  orgies, 
debaucheries  and  pomps,  sapping  race- thews,  survives? 
Yet  they  say  revolutions  are  crimes! 

Revolution  wipes  out  the  swinish  caste,  unchaining 
evolution. 

We  now  know  the  grisly  earth-secret  The  car  of 
death  grinding  over  civilization  is  humanly  engineered; 
the  parent  of  the  demon  which  stalks  through  humanity 
driving  his  death-blade  into  one  helpless  heart  after 
another,  only  to  sate  his  hell  lust,  is  man's  own  cramped 
mis-carven  brain.  Man  frames  his  demon  Providence, 
arms  him  wTith  poisoned  shafts,  and  lets  him  loose  to 
torture  and  kill.  The  demon  has  different  forms  in  dif- 
ferent ages,  to-day  it  is  the  rich  caste.  Some  of  life's 
blackest  mysteries  dissolve  under  this  light.  If  man 
creates  this  killing  Providence  he  can  discreate  him. 
Under  this  damning  demon  what  is  life? 

"For  most  men  in  a  brazen  prison  live, 
Where  in  the  sun's  hot  eye, 
With  heads  bent  o'er  their  toil,  they  languidly 
Their  lives  to  some  unmeaning  task  work  give, 
Dreaming  of  nought  beyond  their  prison  wall; 
And  as  year  after  year 
Fresh  products  of  their  barren  labor  fall 
From  their  tired  hands,  and  rest 
Never  yet  comes  more  near, 
Gloom  settles  slowly  down  over  their  breast, 
And  while  they  try  to  stem 

The  waves  of  mournful  thought  by  which  they  are  prest, 
Death  in  their  prison  reaches  them, 
Unfreed,  having  seen  nothing,  still  unblest." 

This  is  life.  It  is  the  foul  child  of  that  deadly  fissure 
in  the  human  brain.  And  by  it  man's  supreme  work  is 
marked  and  illumined . 


CHAPTER  XXIV. 

EMASCULATION    OF    THE    UNIVERSE. 

What,  then,  must  the  race  that  will  survive  do?  It 
must,  first,  clear  away  the  rich,  and,  second,  devote 
itself  to  perfect  breeding.  These  two  courses  are  the 
principal  present  means  for  correcting  the  deficient 
structure  of  the  human  brain. 

It  will  be  seen  that  filling  the  indicated  gaps  in  the 
brain  is  identical  with  producing  a  better  race,  which 
must  henceforth  be  mankind's  leading  object.  \Yealth 
is  an  instrument  for  race-making.  This  wealth-essence 
compels  the  formation  of  a  new  code  of  wealth,  abolish- 
ing the  savage  usages  of  a  tooth  and  claw  civilization. 
By  the  new  code  the  current  laws  and  conceptions  of 
wealth  are  repealed  as  if  by  edict  from  eternity;  their 
annulment  is  a  decree  from  truth  and  internal  nature. 
Wealth,  as  an  instrument  to  develop  the  unit  and  whole 
for  the  fashioning  of  a  better  human  type,  cannot  be  a 
private  thing.  You  might  as  well  let  a  few  men  own 
God,  in  whatever  sense  you  take  God.  To  own  earth's 
wealth  is  to  6e  earth's  God.  But  that  God  turns  to 
Devil  as  soon  as  private  men  chain  and  own  it.  It  is 
then  their  Fiend-of-all-work  against  the  human  race. 

The  waste  of  the  evolution-instrument,  wealth,  is 
treason.  A  waster  of  the  forces  of  evolution  snaps  his 

219 


220  MABBIAGE    AND    RACK    DEATH 

finger  at  the  infinite,  a  traitor  to  the  universe  that  built 
him.  But  he  also  forcibly  robs  others  of  their  rights 
in  this  universe,  heads  off  and  destroys  the  forces  com- 
ing their  way  to  build  them,  holds  up  and  defies  the 
grand  whole  in  its  efforts  to  give  its  best  to  men  by 
making  them  complete  and  fitting  them  out  with  more 
noble  faculties  to  perceive  and  employ  its  transforming 
magic.  The  waster  of  wealth  is  the  strangler  of  higher 

}*  man — a  race-killer.  Search  for  men's  most  insidious, 
mortal  foe,  their  prime  exterminator :  it  is  he.  So  treat 
him,  is  the  new  law.  Eradicate  his  type;  halt  his  rav- 
ages, and  if  he  will  not  be  halted,  isolate  him,  bottle 
him  up  with  his  criminal  propensities ;  he  is  the  tiger  in 
humanity:  use  on  him  the  powers  that  tame  or  extermi- 
nate the  tiger. 

The  rich  man,  the  waster  of  wealth  by  profession,  is 
therefore  both  a  criminal  and  an  anachronism,  so  that 
the  first  law  of  common  sense  is  his  abolition.  Not  only 
can  he  not  be  trusted  to  help  race  ends,  it  is  impossible 
for  him  to  do  so,  even  if  he  would  he  could  not,  for  his 
presence^  his  existence  as  a  confiscator  and  holder  of 
race-forces,  excludes  these  ends  from  attainment.  The 
moment  these  ends  are  his  he  knows  that  he  must  abol- 
ish himself  as  a  rich  man :  and  if  he  does  not  do  thus 
the  true  race  ends  of  man  are  not  his  and  man  must 
abolish  him. 
/  Race  growth  and  personal  growth  are  rights  which 

y  cannot  be  sold,  released  or  taken  away;  they  beseech  no 
charity  and  tolerate  no  philanthropy;  they  stand  im- 
pregnable and  absolute :  but  if  a  private  man  may  have 
wealth  to  dole  it  forth  to  them  as  it  pleases  his  fine 
whim  he  is  sovereign  and  they  are  beggars — the  universe, 


EMASCULATION    OF    THE    UNIVERSE  221 

God,  all  things,  then  crawl  in  mean  supplication  to  the 
rich  man !  This  is  a  fantastic  condition  for  the  mighty 
forces  of  this  sphere  to  endure — but  there  they  are  to- 
day creeping,  and  imploring  rich  men  to  let  them  act. 
God  is  on  his  knees  to  the  owners  and  manipulators  of 
his  powers,  pleading  permission  to  go  on  with  creation.* 
And  they  forbid  it.  And  creation  stands  still.  The  final 
purpose  of  God  in  these  days  is  to  grind  wealth  from 
his  universe-machine  for  the  troop  of  wealth-sots  to 
burn.  The  ralson  d'etre  of  the  Whole  is  perennial  fire- 
works for  this  collection  of  earthly  defectives  whose 
idiot  brain  structure  condemns  them  to  see  in  the  forces 
of  nature  and  in  human  kind  gaudy  powders  for  bon- 
fires to  amuse  them — while  God  is  helpless  or  unwilling 
to  correct  the  infamous  usage.  The  term  idiot  is  used 
as  before  to  indicate  strict  facts  of  brain  composition 
as  demonstrated  by  the  acts  which  flow  from  that  struc- 
ture; it  is  not  employed  as  a  title  of  contempt,  for 
it  would  be  as  reasonable  to  indulge  scorn  for  the  imbe- 
cile who  has  lost  part  of  his  brain  as  for  the  detective 
who  never  possessed  it. 

The  point  argued  is  that  as  the  dangerous  lunatic  is 
treated  as  such,  so  must  the  dangerous  social  idiot  be. 
No  misplaced  kindness  sanctions  the  lunatic  freedom  to 
run  at  large  killing  men,  because  to  restrain  and  seques- 
trate him  would  impinge  upon  his  rights.  The  defective 
who  from  absence  of  brain  substance  wastes  (destroys) 
wealth  which  the  race  needs  for  evolving  itself  is  identi- 
cal with  the  lunatic  who  kills  from  having  lost  his  intel- 
ligence. The  rich  man,  the  professional  wealth-waster, 

*This  is  true  in  whatever  way  God  is  conceived,  whether  as  supreme 
spirit,  or  the  unity  of  all  forces:  it  strikes  the  God  of  the  Christian 
and  the  Unified  Power  of  the  atheist. 


222  MARRIAGE    AND    RACE    DEATH 

is  the  dangerous  social  idiot,  with  only  brain  tissue  suffi- 
cient to  take  in  himself,  and  that  but  little  more  intelli- 
gently than  the  lunatic.  He  must  be  recognized  as  the 
social  lunatic,  treated  as  the  defective  irresponsible- 
ward  of  society,  and  immured,  if  necessary,  as  the  mad- 
man is,  for  the  safety  of  others.  If  he  resists,  on  him 
the  consequences.  The  rage  for  private  wealth  is  homi- 
cidal mania  on  the  social  scale.  It  effects  the  killing  of 
others  by  social  methods,  whereas  the  individual  lunatic 
or  homicide  strikes  blows  and  fires  shots  at  men. 

The  distinction  between  breeding  a  great  race  and 
breeding  to  fill  the  hoppers  of  the  rich  is  the  thought  on 
which  the  new  world  will  break  off  from  the  old.  The  dif- 
ference in  the  conceptions  of  marriage  under  these  hos- 
tile views  is  as  great  as  possible.  Under  the  law  that 
young  are  born  for  the  hoppers  of  the  rich,  the  present 
sinister  law,  most  women  in  result  are  female  cattle  re- 
producing human  calves  for  consumption  by  the  higher 
class.  The  husband's  function  is  to  supply  the  male  ele- 
ment demanded  by  nature  for  the  delivering  of  human 
cattle,  and  to  assist  in  feeding  these  young  while  they 
wax  in  size  to  be  devoured  in  work  when  grown.  The  rich 
eat  all  their  efforts,  which  is  identical  with  eating  them. 
For  most  of  civilized  humanity  the  family  accomplishes 
nothing  but  this.  It  is  a  bull-and-cow  relation  to  breed 
man-flesh  to  be  worked  over  in  rich  men's  factories  into 
substance  for  these  rich  to  gorge  and  waste  in  their  crim- 
inal orgies  and  cruel  pomp.  Therefore  the  people  in  and 
through  their  families  really  breed  these  orgies  and 
pomps — the  family  in  its  essence  is  an  incubator  to  beget 
children  for  the  professional  carousers  and  wasters  to 


EMASCULATION    OF    THE    UNIVERSE  223 

burn.*  The  parents  have  no  end  in  themselves,  neither 
have  the  children,  above  that  of  the  cow,  which  after 
being  milked  for  a  while  and  having  delivered  a  few 
calves,  is  eaten.  Common  men  and  women  are  milked 
for  a  while  of  their  toil-power,  deliver  a  few  young  to  be 
milked  thus  later,  and  when  all  their  beatific  vital  force 
is  pumped  out  and  glutted  by  the  rich,  they  are  turned 
free  to  rot  and  die,  everything  good  in  them  having  been 
consumed.  The  children  of  these  wrung-out  creatures 
now  form  new  families  for  the  deliverance  of  more  edible 
child-cattle  for  the  rich. 

This,  from  a  human  point  of  view,  is  an  atrocious 
plan  of  life  for  the  race,  because  man  is  theoretically 
supposed  to  be  a  person  and  to  have  an  end  in  himself. 


*Charles  T.  Yerkes,  the  traction  millionaire,  had  a  wife  whom  he 
supplied  with  a  palace  and  enormous  sums  to  burn.  He  supplied  Miss 
Gladys  Unger,  one  of  the  girls  he  loved,  with  a  palace  in  London  and 
the  great  sums  necessary  to  keep  it  and  her.  He  supplied  Miss  Emilie 
Grigsby,  another  of  the  girls  he  loved,  with  a  palace  and  endless  money 
for  her  luxurious  life.  All  this  money  came  from  the  milked  people 
of  America  and  England,  who  were  industriously  begetting  children  that 
would  turn  themselves  into  wealth  for  these  professional  carousers  and 
wasters  to  burn. 

Describing  Miss  Grigsby 's  palace,  Mrs.  Dunlap  Hopkins,  her 
chaperone,  said  that  "no  home  in  this  city  was  the  centre  of  such  a 
lavish  display  of  wealth."  There  are  candelabras  of  solid  silver  and 
mural  decorations  in  Wagnerian  subjects  worth  a  fabulous  sum;  cabi- 
nets with  "wonderful  curios  from  everywhere  and  of  priceless  value "; 
rare  carved  furniture,  ceilings,  and  mantels;  toilette  sets  of  solid  gold, 
and  rich  velvet  carpets.  "A  guest  chamber,"  said  Mrs.  Hopkins, 
"has  each  of  its  panels  made  of  needlework  tapestry,  which  cost  $5,000 
a  panel.  There  are  fifteen  panels,  I  think,  in  this  room  *  *  *  In 
fact,  it  is  not  a  house.  It  is  a  museum,  and  the  lavishness  of  money 
poured  out  to  make  it  shows  that  the  man  wnio  is  said  to  have  given 
the  money  was  sadly  in  love  *  *  *  Yet  Miss  Grigsby  is  not  given 
to  great  generosities.  I  never  heard  of  her  giving  away  anything  but 
her  old  clothes." 

This  is  the  manner  of  life  of  the  wealth  cremators,  to  enrich  whom 
common  people  beget  their  babes.  Wives  and  mistresses  exploit  rich 
men,  rich  men  exploit  the  people,  and  the  people  propagate  babes  to 
keep  it  up, 


224  MARRIAGE    AND    RACE    DEATH 

It  is  certainly  curious  to  reflect  that  his  end  is  to  supply 
substance  for  the  dangerous  lunatics  and  social  idiots 
to  burn.  The  social  idiots  have  not  only  beaten  God  or 
universal  forces  to  their  knees  in  helpless  supplication 
and  beggary,  but  have  compelled  all  other  men  to 
squander  their  whole  noble  life  strength  in  making  ma- 
terial for  their  orgiastic  bonfires.  The  end  of  the  family 
is  to  keep  up  the  series  of  abortive  creatures  called 
human  to  serve  the  rich  as  their  agents  in  coercing  God 
(or  universal  forces)  to  toil  to  give  them,  as  defective 
lunatics,  universe  growth  substance  to  wreck  and  waste 
in  the  riot  of  their  half-built  brains. 

If  the  universe  were  to  cease  to-morrow  the  vast  fact 
would  be  the  blotting  out  of  these  culminating  orgies  and 
pomps,  and  of  the  brain  deficients  or  social  lunatics  for 
whom  the  universe  emaciates  itself  to  provide  the  de- 
bauch of  waste.  The  extinction  of  mankind  would  be  in 
itself  insignificant,  for  while  all  the  energies  of  the  scheme 
of  things  converge  in  producing  man,  all  the  powers  of 
man  converge  in  producing  the  band  of  lunatics  and 
feeding  the  fires  of  their  universe  waste.  The  rich 
emasculate  the  universe.  The  death  of  mankind  would 
be  the  passing  of  a  form  of  life  which  has  made  structural 
fools  its  master  and  spent  all  the  sap  and  fire  given  it 
by  nature  in  obeying  the  orders  of  these  fools  to  emascu- 
late universal  Power  and  Reality  to  make  a  spectacle  for 
their  botched  and  aborted  minds.  The  death  of  man 
would  be  the  setting  of  God  or  Nature  free  to  try  another 
experiment,  with  its  tremendous  failure  before  it  as  a 
lesson  and  suggestion. 


CHAPTER  XXV. 

SHOULD  THE  RICH  BE  PERSONALLY  HATED? 

The  call  on  man  to  propagate  is  therefore  the  subliin- 
est  absurdity,  and  life  in  the  world  should  either  be  de- 
stroyed by  non-breeding,  or  the  lunatics  who  make  the 
human  breed  an  infamy  should  be  obliterated. 

What  race  will  have  the  stamina  needed  for  cleansing 
the  nation  of  this  class  of  defectives,  the  rich?  It  is  the 
problem  whether  man  is  now  to  evolve  the  capacity  for 
breaking  down  the  kingship  of  structural  idiots.  "Our 
forefathers  threw  off  the  yoke  of  popery  in  religion; 
for  you  is  reserved  the  honor  of  levelling  the  popery  of 
politics,"  Samuel  Adams  said  to  his  adherents  when 
the  then  new  American  race  was  virile.  Now  in  the 
premature  senility  of  this  stock  which  did  not  succeed  in 
levelling  even  the  popery  of  politics  but  only  gave  it  to 
new  men  with  another  cut  of  robe,  the  glory  of  destroy- 
ing the  popery  of  capital  and  the  rich  is  offered  to  a  new 
race  rising  on  its  ashes.  "There  is  but  one  question  in 
the  heart  of  monarchs,"  said  Hazlitt — "whether  mankind 
are  their  property  or  not" ;  and  there  is  but  one  question 
in  the  heart  of  capitalists, — whether  they  can  own  and 
rob  and  kill  and  devour  mankind. 

The  Association  for  the  Study  and  Prevention  of 
Tuberculosis  has  in  its  exhibit  the  miniature  of  a  New 

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226  MARRIAGE    AND    RACE    DEATH 

York  tenement  block  as  it  was  in  1900.  It  is  the  block 
bounded  by  Chrystie,  Forsyth,  Canal  and  Bayard  Streets. 
It  is  officially  described  as  follows :  "There  are  39  tene- 
ment houses  in  the  block  containing  605  different  apart- 
ments, having  2781  persons.  Of  these  2315  are  over  5 
years  of  age  and  466  under  5  years.  The  block  contains 
263  two  room  apartments,  179  three  room  apartments, 
105  four  room  apartments,  21  five  room  apartments,  mak- 
ing a  total  of  1588  rooms.  There  are  only  264  water 
closets  in  the  block.  There  is  not  one  bath  in  the  entire 
block.  Only  40  apartments  are  supplied  with  hot  water. 
There  are  441  dark  rooms,  having  no  ventilation  to  the 
outer  air,  and  no  light  or  air  except  that  derived  from 
other  rooms.  There  are  635  rooms  getting  their  sole 
light  and  air  from  dark  narrow  'air  shafts.'  The  rentals 
derived  from  the  block  amount  to  |113,964  a  year.  This 
block  has  not  been  selected  as  one  of  the  worst  in  the 
city. — There  are  worse  ones." 

As  the  either  totally  dark  or  'air  shaft'  rooms  form 
a  total  of  1076,  but  512  rooms  are  left  lighted  and  aired 
directly  from  the  open,  and  of  them  many  look  on  close, 
narrow,  steaming  courts.  Blocks  like  this  are  called 
'Lung  Blocks'  because  such  troops  of  the  inmates  die 
of  the  white  plague.  These  blocks  are  permitted  to 
exist  for  one  sole  reason — the  enrichment  of  a  species 
of  biped  called  the  Capitalist.  Out  of  the  lung  disease 
and  misery  in  this  one  signified  block  alone  that  ani- 
mal wrung  |113,964  annually.  This  is  owning,  robbing, 
killing  and  devouring  mankind.  Those  who  do  it  are 
hogs.  They  are  murderers. 

Now  who  are  these  blood-drinking  bipeds?  That 
John  Jacob  Astor  who  let  his  cousin  be  thrown  out  on 


SHOULD    THE    RICH    BE    PERSONALLY  HATED          227 

to  the  street  for  want  of  $10  to  pay  rent  owns  acres  of 
New  York  land,  worth  from  $100,000,000  to  $300,000,000 : 
he  owns,  robs,  kills  and  devours  the  tenement  dwellers. 
Such  as  he  are  chief  engineers  of  the  Tuberculosis  Manu- 
factories. Holy  Trinity  Church  Corporation  is  another 
consumption  factory,  communicating  consumption  to  the 
poor  that  it  may  rob  them  of  rentals  to  invest  in  the 
glory  of  God.  The  coal  strike  award  of  1903  is  figured 
to  have  cost  the  operators  13  cents  more  a  ton:  they 
|  raised  the  price  of  coal  50  cents  a  ton :  which  means  add- 
|  ing  hunger  and  sorrow  to  all  the  poor  of  the  country. 
This  is  owning,  robbing,  killing  and  devouring  mankind. 
The  poor  have  to  buy  coal  by  the  bucket  and  pay  twice 
as  much  for  it  as  others. 

President  Hegeman  of  the  Metropolitan  Life,  which 
|  insures  mainly  the  poor,  admitted  to  the  Armstrong  Com- 
mittee that  "the  cost  of  industrial  insurance,  which  is 
|  taken  only  by  the  poor,  is  twice  that  of  ordinary  insur- 
tjance."    This  is  because  the  poor  are  too  poor  to  pay  a 
jjlump  sum  as  premium,  but  have  to  be  followed  up  by 
|  agents  for  wretched  little  weekly  payments.     It  is  the 
\poverty  tax.     The  expense  of  living  is  made  twice  as 
i  heavy  for  the  poor  man  because  he  is  poor,,  and  he  gets 
din  return  the  worst  of  everything.     Hegeman  testified, 
]  "The  poor  man  pays  twice  as  much  for  all  his  necessities 
las  the  wealthy  man  and  is  willing  to  do  it.     He  seems 
;  content  to  stay  at  his  workbench  all  the  time,  his  wife 
i  at  her  sewing  machine  and  his  children  in  the  school 
\  room."    The  poor  man's  willingness  is  merely  the  com- 
ilpuleion  of  his  poverty.    Hegeman  gets  $90,000  salary  a 
lyear  for  charging  the  poor  twice  as  much  for  insurance 
nas  the  rich.    This  is  owning,  robbing,  killing  and  devour- 


228  MARRIAGE    AND    RACE    DEATH 

ing  mankind.  The  insurance  highwaymen  paid  hundreds 
of  thousands  of  dollars  to  bribe  the  Albany  Legislature 
not  to  pass  laws  to  prevent  them  from  double-charging 
the  poor  and  devouring  mankind. 

Frank  A.  Vanderlip,  Vice-President  of  the  National 
City  Bank  of  New  York,  notes  and  confesses  the  recent 
transition  of  the  American  workingrnan  from  compara- 
tive freedom  to  perfect  slavery,  and  declares  for  old-age 
pensions  for  these  chattel  paupers.*  The  New  York 
Times  seconds  his  admission  in  these  most  remarkable 
words :  "Mr.  Vanderlip  notes,  what  is  universally  recog- 
nized l>y  business  men,  that  while  the  able,  active  work- 
ingman  has  in  recent  years  improved  his  condition  un- 
der tendencies  toward  specialization  and  concentration, 
he  has  to-day  'no  such  thing  as  industrial  independence'; 
that  when  forced  from  the  industrial  machine  by  sick- 
ness, accident,,  or  old  age  his  state  is  incomparably 
worse  than  that  formerly  obtaining."  This  black  revo- 
lution has  occurred  with  Trade  Unionism  in  full  blast, 
absolutely  disproving  its  efficacy  to  stem  the  tidal  wave 
of  poverty  and  enslavement. 

The  lesson  is  written  in  fire,  and  burns  so  that  the 
blind  can  read  it  by  feeling.  This  new  degrading  slaverj 
results  from  a  few  rich  owning,  robbing,  killing  and  de 
vouring  the  people.  And  the  secret  of  their  being  able  to 
do  it  lies  in  this:  that  the  devoured  people  have  not 
learned  to  look  upon  their  devourers  as  personal  ene- 
mies, and  to  hate  them  as  their  assassins.  If  men  burn 
the  food-wealth  of  the  people,  their  nutriment,  which 
would  go  into  the  people  and  make  men,  they  burn  the 


*North  American  Beview,  Dec.,    '05. 
**Dee.  1,   '05 — previously  quoted. 


SHOULD    THE    RICH    BB   PERSONALLY  HATED         229 

people,  do  they  not?  This  is  assassination.  I  have  de- 
scribed it  as  fiend- work.  Should  you  love  those  who 
do  it,  or  hate  them?  Should  you  let  them  keep  on? 
You  would  be  a  wretch  and  a  coward,  jointly  responsi- 
ble for  race  assassination.  If  they  defied  you,  proclaim- 
ing they  would  assassinate  in  spite  of  you,  it  would  be 
your  duty  to  crush  them,  to  clean  the  earth  of  them. 
You  would  be  joint  assassins  with  them  if  you  did  not. 

Now  I  ask  you,  how  you  are  going  to  do  this  unless 
you  hate  such  creatures  inexorably?  They  request  only 
one  thing  of  you — that  you  will  love  them  with  Chris- 
tian love — then  they  can  cut  your  throats  at  their  ease. 
How  many  of  you  believe  in  saying  to  a  wolf  intent  on 
eating  your  flesh,  "Wolf,  it  would  be  wrong  for  me  to 
hate  you,  I  love  you,  therefore  I  must  let  you  eat  me." 
You  do  say  this  to  the  rich  assassins.  How  many  of 
you  would  say  to  a  savage  whose  lifted  ax  was  about  to 
split  your  skull,  "Savage,  if  I  could  hate  you  I  should 
crush  you  and  save  my  life,  but  as  I  am  a  civilized 
Christian  I  love  you,  since  I  love  you  I  am  in  sympathy 
with  anything  you  wish  to  do  to  me.  You  are  going  to 
murder  me  and  I  consent,  for  it  would  be  wicked  to 
hinder  you,  since  it  might  cost  you  your  life,  and  loving 
you  I  can't  take  that  risk."  We  use  this  imbecile  lan- 
guage and  take  this  course  with  the  assassin  rich.  So 
the  rich  have  come  to  think  it  a  divine  right  of  theirs 
to  assassinate  us.  Our  attitude  is  that  of  an  ox  who  walks 
into  the  slaughter-house,  adjusts  his  head,  and  invites 
the  butcher  to  deliver  the  blow. 

All  this  is  monstrous.  Wolves,  savages,  tyrants, 
swillers,  are  always  personally  responsible  for  what  they 
do.  Suppose  you  said,  "No,  it  is  the  wolf  system  that 


230  MAEBIAGB    AND    RACE    DEATH 

is  about  to  eat  me,  not  this  individual  wolf:  therefore 
to  save  my  life  I  must  attack  the  general  system  of 
wolves."  You  would  be  dead  by  the  jaws  of  the  indi- 
vidual wolf  ere  you  had  carried  your  plans  against  the 
system  fax;,  That  is  the  Rooseveltian  method  of  prose- 
cuting corporations  for  crimes,  but  not  the  corporation 
officers  who  commit  the  crimes.  It  is  baby  play. 

You  can  exonerate  the  assassins  from  anything  they 
do  by  this  plea.  The  rich  Jews  of  the  world,  for  in- 
stance, pretend  that  they  do  not  wish  their  poor  co- 
religionists in  Russia  massacred;  now  if  the  Russian 
Government  could  borrow  no  money  it  would  fall,  free- 
dom would  be  organized,  and  the  massacres  would  cease. 
Whoever  lends  money  to  the  Russian  Government,  there- 
fore, massacres  the  Jews.  All  over  the  world  the  rich 
Jews  eagerly  supply  their  money  to  the  Russian  Gov- 
ernment. They  murder  the  Russian  Jews.  Russia  pays 
them  interest  on  the  money — extorting  it  from  the  Rus- 
sian poor.  Among  these  poor  are  the  Russian  Jews. 
So  through  the  Russian  Government  the  rich  Jews  of 
the  earth  rob  the  poor  Jews  of  Russia,  as  well  as  mas- 
sacring them.  The  Christian  rich  co-operate. 

For  all  this  the  system  not  the  rich  personally,,  is 
responsible!  I  repudiate  this  shallow,  contemptible 
doctrine.  It  is  the  rich  personally.  The  system  does 
not  put  their  damnable  gains  in  its  pocket,  they  do  it. 
And  now  as  soon  as  we  see  this  and  get  right  at  the 
with  personal  hate  and  hold  them  individually  responsi- 
ble for  their  crimes  they  will  begin  to  tremble.  Then, 
and  only  then,  will  their  robbery  and  assassinatior 
system  and  all,  be  doomed. 

Therefore,  Americans,  single  out  these  great  crir 
inals  individually  and  hate  them  unceasingly  until  the 


SHOULD    THE    RICH    BE    PEKSONALLY  HATED         281 

are  abolished.  When  you  do  this  they  will  skulk  to  their 
holes  and  pray  to  the  mountains  to  hide  them  from 
your  wrath. 

I  would  add  that  their  real  power  is  zero.  All  the 
strength  they  appear  to  have  we  loan  them  by  not  per- 
sonally hating  them.  With  strength  thus  loaned  them 
they  bully  us — then  we  fancy  them  Hercules  and  cower 
and  shiver.  When  they  see  us  frightened  they  bully  and 
bludgeon  us,  until  you  would  think  the  millions  of  citi- 
zens all  babies,  and  the  handful  of  swaggering  rich 
omnipotent  gods.  They  drive  and  cudgel  us  as  were  a 
squadron  of  geese  chasing  a  squadron  of  battleships. 
It  is  so:  a  few  rich  impotent  geese  against  all  America! 

O  Countrymen,  what  laughter  over  you  there  must 
be  in  heaven.  Get  up  on  your  feet  with  manly  hate  of 
these  windbags  and  see  them  dissipate ! 

In  the  oil  fields  of  Baku,  Kussia,  a  great  fraction  of 
the  property  was  wiped  out  in  a  few  days  by  the  rebellion 
of  the  working  classes ;  tanks  and  structures  were  burned 
and  machinery  destroyed,  the  oil  companies  placing  their 
loss  at  $90,000,000;  and  M.  Nobel  the  principal  pro- 
prietor, declaring  the  catastrophe  complete,  stated  that 
"the  present  crisis  is  the  outcome  of  a  political  and  labor 
war  which  has  been  in  progress  since  last  December, 
when  the  men's  organization  told  the  masters  'If  you 
want  oil  you  must  secure  reforms' — and  as  the  reforms 
were  not  secured  the  workmen  executed  their  threat." 
After  the  burning  a  well-informed  Russian  predicted  that 
fundamental  reforms  and  personal  guarantees  would  be 
granted  to  the  workmen  within  a  few  weeks.  Since  then 
things  have  gone  farther. 


232  MARRIAGE    AND    RACE    DEATH 

It  cost  the  rich  classes  of  Russia  from  fifty  to  a  hun- 
dred millions  to  begin  to  learn  that  the  workmen  were 
tired  of  tyranny  in  Baku:  it  would  have  been  worth 
teaching  them  that  lesson  if  the  whole  oil  industry  had 
consumed.  It  was  the  only  way  to  get  an  idea  through 
their  ironclad  selfishness  or  reach  their  ears.  Tyrants 
have  no  hearing  for  words  coming  from  starving,  dying 
men ;  they  tell  the  starving  they  are  lazy  and  well  fed  and 
command  them  to  be  silent  when  they  only  plead  in  words 
and  weep  in  tears:  but  when  they  beg  for  justice  with 
the  torch  and  burn  ninety  millions  of  wealth  in  their 
lamentations,  the  tyrants  acquire  the  power  to  see  that 
the  poor  are  hungry.  The  Baku  workingmen  hated  their 
masters  and  acted  on  their  hate  and  so  began  to  win  a 
right  to  live.*  Here  was  a  frightful  holocaust  of  wealth 
rendered  compulsory  because  the  rich  tyrants  would  not 
permit  its  use  for  human  evolution  but  were  resolved  to 
waste  it  on  their  idiot  follies. 

The  great  world  of  oppressed  should  learn  the  lesson 
of  Baku.  You  must  hate  the  tyrant  wealth-wasters  per- 
sonally and  recognize  that  they  will  not  relinquish  the 
world  which  they  have  stolen  except  as  it  is  taken  from 
them.  It  is  not  the  system  alone  you  must  hate,  but  the 
mad  managers  of  the  system.  Taking  the  world  from  its 
tyrant  devastators  is  higher  than  scientific  discoveries, 
high  as  they  are,  for  when  the  people  have  their  world  vol- 

the  bureaucrats  tor  reiorms,  wmcn  were  not  given;  out  lonunaieiy  me 
bureaucracy  believed  that  the  workmen  were  only  living  corpses  who 
would  never  act,  and  so  refused  the  oil  masters  the  privilege  to  hire 
private  military  to  prevent  their  men  from  ever  getting  reforms,  by 
killing  them  if  they  used  the  method  of  riot.  Later  advices  place  the 
loss  below  ninety  million,  but  at  a  great  enough  figure  to  purchase 
reforms. 


SHOULD    THE    RICH    BE    t>EfcSONALLY  HATED         233 

umes  more  of  strength  will  go  into  discoveries;  and  the 
people  will  be  blessed  and  saved  by  the  discoveries,  which 
now  serve  to  embellish  the  tyrant  rich.  The  hatred  must 
be  like  that  a  man  feels  for  a  cancer  which  is  eating  him 
up.  He  might  love  the  cancer  if  it  would  stop  devouring — 
so  might  one  love  the  rich  if  they  would  stop  eating  him. 
But  they  cannot  stop  and  still  exist  as  rich,  just  as  the 
cancer  cannot  pause  and  still  be  a  cancer.  Wherefore 
your  duty  is  to  hate  the  cancer  wealth-caste  so  terribly 
and  intelligently  as  to  cause  its  extinction  from  the  social 
body.  At  Baku  they  burned  the  cancer,  though  not 
enough  to  burn  it  out:  we  are  to  take  the  method  that 
will  cause  its  extermination  whatever  that  is,  and  what- 
ever it  is  it  will  be  right.  We  have  come  to  the  parting 
ways  where  race-evolution  irrevocably  rules  that  the 
cancer  Capitalism  must  go. 


CHAPTER  XXVI. 

THIS  REPUBLIC^  DEFENSE  OF  WEALTH-WASTE. 

A  remarkable  fiction  upholds  the  right  to  waste 
wealth  in  the  United  States.  Having  examined  it  we 
must  inquire  whether  the  Wealth- Wasters  shall  be  paid 
for  ceasing  to  destroy  wealth.  And  the  drift  of  these 
analyses  is  to  define  from  other  approaches  the  principles 
through  which  the  New  American  race  may  become  last- 
ing and  prepare  the  conditions  for  breeding  up  into 
something  above  civilization  which  may  be  called  great- 
ness, f 

If  a  line  were  drawn  around  certain  families  in 
whom  the  wealth  and  right  to  waste  it  should  ever 
remain,  all  others  but  their  descendants  being  excluded 
for  all  time,  there  would  be  an  instant  revolution  and 
these  families  would  be  crushed;  the  world  would  cry 
out,  We  need  the  wealth!  what  right  have  you  to  seize 
and  waste  the  very  blood  of  our  being  and  hand  down 
to  your  children  the  prerogative  to  emaciate  ours?  Were 
the  power  to  waste  rigorously  monopolized  by  the  same 
families  it  would  be  quickly  seen  that  wealth-wasting 
is  an  infamous  crime;  and  the  reason  lucidly  given  fo: 
the  revolution  would  be  the  scandalousness  of  wastin 
wealth  which  humanity  needs,  not  the  plea,  "We  want 
share  the  privilege  of  blotting  out  wealth  idiotically/ 

432 


THE    APOLOGY    FOR    WEALTH-WASTE  235 

Monarch  and  nobles  were  revolted  against  as  hereditary 
wealth  wasters.  But  in  the  revolt  mankind's  insight 
failed,  for  it  merely  assaulted  the  hereditary  monopoly 
of  the  right  to  waste  wealth,  leaving  the  right  itself, 
which  was  the  core  of  the  crime.  It  did  not  destroy  the 
right  to  waste,  it  did  not  abrogate  the  privilege  to  trans- 
mit and  inherit  that  right :  it  merely  pierced  a  few  holes 
in  the  wall  around  the  exclusive  wasters,  so  that  some 
others  might  creep  in  and  take  up  the  function  of  wast- 
ing and  crowd  some  of  the  original  hereditary  wasters 
out.  Destroying  the  sinews  of  life  remained  the  sub- 
lirnest  occupation  of  man,  proceeding  at  full  blast  within 
the  enclosure  and  increasing  in  unison  with  the  power 
of  the  human  herd  outside  to  swell  the  wealth  for  the 
race-wreckers  to  burn. 

The  social  system  of  the  United  States  rests  on  the 
incredibly  puerile  principle  that  it  is  good  to  burn 
wealth  in  waste  provided  the  privilege  to  burn  it  is 
handed  around  among  several  who  are  not  always  the 
same  persons.  It  is  incredible  opacity  not  to  discern 
that  wealth  burned  by  four  thousand  special  wasters 
depletes  the  nation  of  sinews  of  life  in  the  same  fatal 
degree,  whether  these  four  thousand  are  identical  in 
blood  and  name  from  age  to  age  or  change  every  gen- 
eration or  every  ten  years.  The  wealth  is  destroyed, 
abolished,  burned,  which  should  go  to  build  and  perfect 
and  glorify  humanity.  We  claim  to  have  a  free  and 
just  country  in  the  United  States,  why?  because  there 
is  a  popular  adage  that  it  is  but  three  generations  from 
shirt-sleeves  to  shirt-sleeves.  In  the  first  generation  a 
man  starts  with  nothing  and  makes  a  fortune  by  coat- 
less  toil  and  sweat,  his  son  inherits  and  burns  it,  and 


236  MARRIAGE    AND    BACE    DEATH 

his  penniless  grandson  has  to  lay  off  his  coat  and  sweat 
again.  And  the  grandson's  sublime  life-motive  is  to 
amass  another  pile  of  wealth  for  his  son  to  burn.  Here 
you  have  the  succinct  principle  of  the  American  nation, 
you  have  its  real  religion.  It  is  rotation  of  wealth- 
burning. 

Now  consider  the  several  marvels  wrapped  in  this 
principle.  This  is  called  a  just  and  good  country  be- 
cause the  son  is  not  restricted  from  burning  up  the 
sinews  of  the  people's  life.  The  highest  goal  and  good 
that  the  nation  conceives  is  burning  wealth,  for  no 
sooner  does  a  son's  father  burn  all  that  he  has  than  the 
son  sets  about  gathering  more,  for  his  son  to  apply  the 
torch  of  waste  to  it.  And  that  is  called  a  noble  life. 
The  especial  greatness  and  freedom  of  the  nation  are 
considered  to  be  found  in  this — that  new  people  burn 
the  sinews  of  human  life  and  evolution  from  generation 
to  generation.  And  because  this  is  claimed  to  be  so,  those 
who  are  dwarfed  and  dying  for  want  of  the  sinews  are 
expected  to  be  loyal  to  the  burners  and  to  the  govern- 
ment which  protects  the  burners  with  hired  force. 

I  pass  over  the  fact  that  the  shirt-sleeve  adage  is  no 
longer  true  in  this  country,  that  the  rich  man's  grand- 
son does  not  take  off  his  coat  in  poverty  and  go  to  work, 
but  inherits  so  much  that  he  cannot  burn  it  all  if  he 
hires  help,  and  that  the  right  to  waste  is  now  substan- 
tially solidified  as  an  hereditary  exclusive  monopoly  in 
a  fixed  and  narrow  circle  of  families,  that  we  have  re- 
stored the  monarchic  status.  This  I  pass  over  for  a 
moment  and  assume  that  the  adage  of  the  shirt-sleeves 
is  true.  (All  that  holds  the  people  back  from  imme- 
diate and  terrific  revolution  is  this  false  assumption, 


THE    APOLOGY    FOR    WEALTH-WASTE  237 

since  our  social  fabric  rests  on  it.  Any  one  not  paid 
to  drug  his  intellect  can  see  its  falsity.)  I  want  to 
point  the  mind  to  the  immeasurable  stupidity  of  a  na- 
tional life  founded  on  the  right  to  burn  wealth  in  any 
form.  That  is  what  intelligence  must  correct.  And  the 
intellectual  status  of  a  people  which  permits  wealth  to 
be  burned  by  a  shifting  class  of  wasters  is  but  little 
higher  than  one  which  has  its  wealth  annihilated  by  a 
fixed  class,  whose  molecules  remain  unchanged.  The 
thought  on  which  intelligence  centres  is  cessation  of 
wealth  waste,  and  that  carries  with  it  irrevocably  the 
abolition  of  the  wealth-wasting  caste,  whether  its  units 
change  or  abide. 

I  cannot  here  develop  the  further  truth  that  men  can- 
not be  produced  if  there  are  wealth-directors  by  inher- 
itance— for  it  is  no  less  evil  to  have  hereditary  directors 
of  wealth  (through  ownership)  than  hereditary  directors 
of  government,  or  monarchs.  The  artificial  inheritance 
of  anything  annuls  general  manhood.  Wealth-rulership 
and  rank-rulership  are  equal  monstrosities. 


CHAPTER   XXVII. 

PAYING    ROBBERS. 

We  are  now  ready  to  consider  whether  the  new  race 
has  a  duty  to  remunerate  the  wealth  burners  when  it 
abolishes  them.  More  definitely,  shall  the  wasting  caste 
be  compelled  to  desist  from  wasting  immediately,  or 
shall  they  be  permitted  for  some  time  to  continue  burn- 
ing life-substance,  but  in  a  diminished  degree? 

The  rich  man's  property  is  not  his,  he  never  had  .* 
valid  title,  but  even  the  false  shadow  of  a  title  vanishes 
when  it  is  seen  that  his  wealth  can  be  applied  to  a 
greater  use  for  man's  good  than  his  waste  of  it.  To  pay 
him  for  his  productive  capital  would  be  to  profess  a 
belief  in  the  fractional  validity  of  his  title,  whereas  it 
is  imperative  to  stamp  on  human  consciousness  the 
moral  blackness  of  having  captured  and  squandered 
wealth  which  would  have  made  mankind  better  and 
happier.  It  would  be  encouraging  infamous  men  to 
subtly  try  their  infamy  on  mankind  again.  Concession 
to  an  evil  principle  of  this  kind  is  superlatively  fatal. 
The  brain  of  man  is  still  so  imperfect  that  the  majority 
soon  forget  a  lesson  that  is  not  printed  in  letters  of 
fire.  If  the  French  Eevolution  had  extended  to  every 
European  country  the  world  would  have  sprung  for- 
ward a  thousand  years;  it  was  prevented  from  doing 

238 


REMUNERATING    ROBBERS  239 

so  by  the  deader  clay  in  the  brains  of  other  nations. 
For  that  reason  no  other  country  than  France  learned 
the  lessons  contained  in  the  French  Revolution.  France 
herself  did  not  learn  them,  for  the  defectives  of  France, 
supported  by  the  defectives  of  all  Europe,  regained 
ascendency  in  France  and  blurred  out  the  lines  which 
that  grand  eruption  of  life  had  written.  This  was  one 
of  those  cosmic  calamities  that  drape  Intelligence  resid- 
ing where  it  may  in  sackcloth  and  break  the  heart  of 
good  with  consternation  and  pain.  Mankind  permitted 
criminals  and  defectives  to  resume  authority,  and  they 
ride  the  world  now  unshaken.  Mankind  compromised 
on  a  life-and-death  issue,  where  compromise  was  death. 

More  than  a  century  has  elapsed  and  it  is  a  life-and- 
death  issue  between  mankind  and  private  wealth — to 
compromise  now  is  death.  The  lesson  that  wealth  is  for 
humanity  cannot  be  taught  unless  mankind  is  resolute 
and  absolute  in  breaking  the  thrones  of  private  wealth. 
A  race  that  can  only  read  letters  of  flame  extracts  no 
sense  from  compromise  where  the  vital  principle  is  given 
away.  How  can  we  expect  it  to? 

If  the  question  of  human  slavery  had  been  composed 
with  the  owners  by  agreeing  to  give  them  for  their  slaves 
other  slaves  to  be  used  until  such  slaves  died,  what  kind 
of  a  settlement  would  this  have  been?  Merely  a  con- 
tinuance, probably  indefinite,  of  slavery.  The  holders 
would  have  found  a  way  before  their  slaves'  demise  of 
obtaining  another  extension.  Compromise  always  works 
so;  compromise  kills  the  principle. 

But  we  are  asked  to  pay  the  destroyers  of  wealth 
with  an  equivalent  of  other  wealth,  so  that  they  may 
continue  to  waste  it.  What  will  they  do  with  that 


240  MARRIAGE    AND    RACE    DEATH 

wealth?  Find  a  way  to  corrupt  men  and  kill  the  new 
principle  that  wealth  is  for  humanity.  Defective  brains 
are  corruptible.  They  see  distortedly,  and  are  already 
corrupt  by  their  inherited  structure:  if  you  would 
accomplish  human  deliverance,  lead  not  these  defective 
brains  into  temptation ;  do  not  give  the  idiot  wasters  of 
wealth  the  sinews  of  corruption  with  which  to  lay  their 
snares  in  the  myriad  weak-seeing  and  defective  minds. 
Take  your  sinews  of  waste  from  the  defectives,  as  slaves 
were  absolutely  freed :  make  your  principle  that  wealth 
is  for  humanity  absolute,  by  fully  taking  wealth  for 
humanity  now. 

If  we  will  change  human  character  to  accord  with 
the  high  law  that  wealth  is  for  humanity,  how  can  we 
do  it  if  we  leave  great  lumps  of  wealth  in  any  form 
with  private  wasters  to  continue  the  hated  principle  that 
wealth  is  not  for  humanity?  Suppose  we  wished  to 
abolish  robbery,  but  should  negotiate  with  the  robbers 
that  they  may  continue  to  rob  as  long  as  their  plunder 
from  past  robberies  is  unspent :  who  would  imagine  that 
society  were  vitally  hostile  to  robbery  or  think  it  press- 
ing to  study  the  ways  of  living  honestly?  None.  And 
who  will  credit  that  we  propose  to  permanently  abolish 
the  great  robbing  wasters  of  wealth  if  we  remunerate 
them  for  what  they  have  already  stolen  and  direct  them 
to  waste  it  at  their  souls'  ease  as  long  as  it  lasts?  This 
would  be  proclaiming,  We  are  not  severely  unfriendly 
to  robbing  or  wasting,  the  robbers  and  wasters  are  good 
gentlemen  whose  habits  we  must  not  rudely  shock,  we 
must  help  them  to  unlearn  their  crimes  gradually,  but 
not  wholly  and  suddenly  deprive  them  of  the  delights 
of  practising  their  crimes.  Who  would  then  believe 


REMUNERATING    ROBBERS  241 

society  to  be  truly  antagonistic  to  robbery  and  waste? 
None.  And  who  would  find  it  essential  to  learn  that 
wealth  is  for  humanity?  Only  the  rare  few  with  well- 
evolved  higher  brain,  whom  the  defectives  would  over- 
whelm. Would  we  think  of  eradicating  private  murder 
by  sanctioning  some  of  it?  Yet  private  murder  is  incom- 
parably less  common  and  deadly  than  murder  by  the 
system  of  wealth-robbery  and  waste. 

But  if  we  examine  this  proposition  more  intently  see 
where  it  carries  us.  The  wealthy  obtained  their  prop- 
erty by  processes,  at  bottom,  of  stealing,  for  they  gave 
no  true  equivalent,  so  that  if  society  pays  them  it  sancti- 
fies stealing.  Their  immunity  has  been  the  massiveness 
of  their  plunder.  Rather  than  be  paid  they  should  be 
penalized  in  proportion  to  that  mass,  or  deported  to  an 
island  where  they  could  live  out  their  lives  in  moral 
quarantine,  where  the  germs  of  their  crimes  would  die 
with  them.  Why  should  pickpockets  be  paid?  We  do 
not  pay  a  sneak  thief  when  we  catch  him  redhanded  and 
take  back  a  stolen  purse;  our  rich  are  merely  magnified 
pickpockets,  who  have  lifted  our  estates  and  rights  as 
well  as  our  purses:  why  in  all  that  is  sane  pay  them? 
That  will  be  buying  back  what  they  have  stolen.  Such 
purchase  will  be  a  second  robbery,  and  confirmation  that 
the  first  robbery  was  right.  If  on  restoration  you  pay 
the  thief  the  sum  there  was  in  your  purse,  what  have 
you  done  but  affirmed  the  righteousness  of  robbing  and 
brevetted  him  to  rob  again?  Will  you  reward  criminals 
for  their  crimes?  By  what  fine  intellectual  alchemy  will 
you  prove  that  you  think  they  are  crimes,  if  you  do? 

But  there  is  a  much  more  true  and  elevated  view: 
it  is  the  robber  who  should  pay.  The  robber  ought  to 


242  MARRIAGE    AND    RACE    DEATH 

pay  back  and  make  good  to  the  robbed  what  he  has  con- 
sumed and  wasted  of  theirs.  But  if  he  yields  up  all  that 
he  has  he  cannot  restore  what  he  has  taken,  because  of 
the  wealth  he  has  destroyed ;  if  the  people  take  back  his 
stolen  goods  and  pay  him  nothing  he  will  still  be  tre- 
mendously in  their  debt.  He  has  had  the  use  and  income 
of  his  stealings,  depriving  his  victims,  the  owners,  of 
growth  and  life.  That  is  the  primary  cause  of  our  im- 
mense underbred  population — the  robbers  have  sucked 
up  the  nutriment  of  their  breeding  and  consumed  it 
idiotically  in  their  pomps  and  appetites.  How  will  you 
pay  these  underbred  beings  for  their  underbreeding?  Can 
you  restore  to  a  man  lost  opportunities  to  live?  Can 
you  resurrect  the  happiness  that  entered  his  life  dead- 
born?  Can  you  make  up  to  men  with  once  great  possi- 
bilities the  denial  of  the  evolution  of  those  possibilities? 
Can  you  recompense  men  for  being  meanly  born,  who, 
with  fed  ancestors,  might  have  been  greatly  born?  These 
are  the  problems  before  you,  gentlemen,  you  who  cry 
remunerate  the  robber  rich.  I  call  on  you  to  remunerate 
the  robbed  poor.  But  you  would  compel  the  poor  who 
have  already  been  looted  of  their  faculties,  to  reward  the 
looters  with  a  second  payment  for  degrading  them.  You 
would  make  the  posterity  of  a  looted  ancestry  pay  the 
posterity  of  the  looters.  You  hang  like  a  devil  to  the 
principle  of  looting. 

If  you  will  give  back  in  full  to-day  the  developed 
faculties  of  which  the  wasting  rich  have  robbed  the  wasted 
many,  I  will  say  pay  the  pickpockets  again,  but  you  can- 
not do  this;  in  the  ordering  of  life  those  stunted  faculties 
must  be  taken  as  they  are  and  developed  with  pain  and 
cost  and  time  to  the  size  they  might  have  reached  genera- 


REMUNERATING    ROBBERS  243 

.-«>.. 

tions  ago  had  they  been  fed :  but  you,  criminal  destroyers 
of  faculty-nutriment,  would  not  have  it  so,  you  killed  the 
growth  of  men's  souls  for  your  orgies  and  bestial  pomps. 
And  you  demand  that  you  shall  be  paid  with  a  second 
aeon  of  orgies  and  pomp  before  you  will  concede  that 
the  souls  you  have  ruined  may  begin  the  ascent  of  life. 
The  demand  is  insolent. 

If  mankind  hanged,  imprisoned,  or  segregated  you  in 
a  pen  of  thieves,  you  would  probably  learn  to  bemoan 
the  evil  you  have  done  the  race;  but  what  will  be  your 
condition  if  your  wealth  is  taken  without  payment  and 
you  are  permitted  the  freedom  and  privileges  of  other 
men?  You  will  pass  from  a  society  organized  on  the 
laws  of  swinehood  into  one  reorganized  on  laws  of  in- 
telligence, and  although  you  will  be  lifted  out  of  the  sty 
against  your  will,  you  will  be  lifted  out.  And  this  will 
be  your  reward.  Instead  of  hanging  you  for  your  world- 
smirching  crimes,  you  will  be  translated  from  an  earth 
of  swinehood  and  hell  to  an  earth  of  intelligence  and 
springtime  glory.  Is  not  that  pay  enough?  Would  you 
call  it  higher  pay  to  give  you  wealth  for  continuance 
in  swinehood  while  the  rest  of  the  world  endeavors  to 
jorganize  health  and  decency  around  your  fetid  sties? 
Gentlemen  of  the  swine  species,  must  we  buy  your  con- 
sent to  transpose  earth  into  perfection,  and  all  remain  in 
swinehood  and  hell  if  your  swineships  are  not  prompted 
to  consent?  We  scarcely  think  so.  If  you  cannot  enjoy 
heaven  it  is  because  of  the  besotted  lives  you  have  led; 
and  we  shall  not  restore  swinehood  to  earth  because  it 
as  the  only  state  you  are  competent  to  delight  in. 

You  will  enter  with  all  into  a  regime  of  health  and 
life.  The  selfish  in  this  medium  of  disease  and  cruelty 


244  MARRIAGE    AND    RACE    DEATH 

are  wretched  as  well  as  wretches ;  it  is  not  as  good  to  be 
a  pig  as  an  intelligence,  although  the  pig  may  have  his 
skin  daily  combed,  his  fat  divinely  groomed,  and  swill 
in  palaces  for  sties :  he  is  a  pig  still,  his  mind  thinks  pig 
thoughts,  his  soul  feels  pig  emotions.  A  rich  pig  in  this 
world  of  treachery  and  sickness,  even  though  he  own 
the  whole  now  scrofulous  planet,  has  not  the  grand  kind 
and  exhaustless  quantity  of  happiness  that  would  be  his 
were  the  world  translated  out  of  pigdom  and  pigdom 
abolished.  Is  not  transition  from  a  hospital  earth  to  a 
commonwealth  of  health,  beauty,  love  and  life  worth  a 
few  dollars? 

Let  us  then  not  further  talk  of  paying  the  rich  for 
their  corruptions  and  crimes  when  their  stolen  wealth  is 
retaken  by  man — the  abolition  of  piggery  is  abundant 

pay. 

The  work  to  be  done  in  the  field  of  wealth  by  a  new 
race  that  will  survive  is  thus  sketched  out.  We  have 
shown  that  the  great  obstacle  to  the  extinction  of  the 
rich  caste  from  the  social  system — which  is  the  belief 
that  it  would  be  wrong  to  take  their  wealth — is  a  fiction, 
that  it  is  worse  than  immoral  not  to  take  their  wealth, 
that  it  is  criminal  in  the  highest  sense  to  permit  them 
to  keep  it.  The  growth  of  brain  introduces  higher  prin- 
ciples which  repeal  the  lower;  by  the  laws  of  Health. 
Intelligence  and  Life,  past  and  present  property  prin- 
ciples are  repealed,  no  man  is  subject  to  them,  the  rights 
of  Life  and  Intelligence  are  above  the  edicts  and  nega- 
tions of  human  legislation,  the  old  property  order  can- 
cels itself  and  passes  away,  its  shackles  fall  from  us, 
its  laws  and  dogmas  are  null,  and  we  enter  into  the 
dispensation  of  Wealth  for  the  new  creation  of  mankind- 


REMUNERATING    ROBBERS  245 

The  lawmakers  may  sanction  this  dispensation  or  despise 
it — it  is  here  and  reigns,  their  statutes  are  repealed  with- 
out their  vote,  their  laws  are  void  because  the  sun  of 
intelligence  melts  them,  the  universe  does  not  ask  per- 
mission of  a  congregation  of  peddling  parliaments  and 
hucktering  congresses  to  advance,  it  rescinds  their  cor- 
rupt Acts  and  they  fall — it  is  a  spectacle  to  watch  del- 
egated nonentities  gibber  and  count  votes  against  Human 
Evolution. 


CHAPTER    XXVIII. 

OUR    DEGENERATE    ARISTOCRACY 

The  cur  is  of  all  animals  most  hated  and  despised. 
Its  nature  is  dominated  by  meanness  and  malice.  It 
does  harm  to  others  solely  to  gratify  its  currish  instincts. 
It  has  no  motive  to  improve  itself  through  being  mean, 
but  it  sates  its  hellish  propensities  by  making  others 
wretched.  A  snarling,  despicable  beast  is  its  character. 
It  is  probably  the  only  animal  which,  although  fed, 
seizes  the  bone  of  a  hungry  companion  just  to  be  superior 
and  make  it  suffer. 

I  therefore  choose  the  term  cur  as  the  perfect  de- 
scription of  our  American  Wealth  Aristocracy.  It 
seizes  what  it  does  not  need  and  keeps  it  from  those  who 
do  need*  just  from  meanness  and  malice  of  nature. 
Let  us  calmly  reason  on  this,  for  if  I  prove  the  point  this 
aristocracy  is  unmitigatedly  damnable.  Does  our  aris- 
tocracy seize  the  nation's  bones  (wealth)  in  order  to 
improve  itself?  The  very  question  makes  us  laugh. 
Look  at  that  aristocracy!  J.  P.  Morgan,  J.  D.  Rocke- 
feller, H.  H.  Rogers,  the  Vanderbilts,  and  all  that  pre- 
cious aggregation  of  fatted  rich  we  know  so  well.  They 
seize  the  people's  wealth  for  one  or  both  of  two  reasons : 


*This  is  the  literal  cur   attribute   and  the  term  is   a  volume  of 
exact  scientific  definition.     The  word  is  not  applied  vituperatively. 
higher  race  life  rests  on  the  exclusion  of  curs  from  human  society. 

246 


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iety. 


OUR     DEGENERATE     ARISTOCRACY  247 

Either  to  lord  it  over  the  rest,  to  swill,  or  both.  They 
are  either  Swillers  or  Tyrants,  and  commonly  both.  All 
that  their  fervidest  adorers  can  say  for  them  is  that  they 
grapple  on  to  all  wealth  because  they  love  power  to 
command  men,  and  not  in  order  to  swill. 

But  this  frenzy  to  command  is  tyranny,  the  love  to 
domineer,  the  exact  attribute  of  the  cur.  It  is  a  swilling 
of  power.  The  cur  gloats  in  the  sense  of  superiority, 
while  the  gaunt  creatures  about  fear  to  come  in  and  get 
the  bone;  he  glories  in  their  wretchedness  because  it 
magnifies  his  power.  This  is  the  very  nature  of  the  rich 
cur.  The  human  cur  and  the  canine  cur  are  then 
perfectly  identical.  Their  acts  and  their  motives  are 
the  same — their  motives  are  meanness  and  malice,  and 
their  acts  execute  their  motives.  So  we  have  a  system  of 
the  appointment  of  curs  to  rule  America,  for  our  wealth 
aristocracy  rules  us. 

I  have  proved  in  this  book  that  the  rich  seize  the 
food  of  the  American  people  and  burn  it.  I  know  that 
economists  and  statisticians  can  argue  away  all  the 
dwarfage  and  suffering  of  the  common  people  by  their 
figures  and  theories:  they  can  prove  by  general  laws 
that  the  emaciated  minds  and  bodies  of  the  poor  visible 
before  them  are  not  emaciated,  because  their  theories 
prove  it.  They  can  prove  that  a  poor  man  who  died  of 
starvation  and  whose  very  corpse  they  see,  is  not  dead, 
because  their  economic  theories  and  figures  will  not 
admit  of  such  dead  men.  Workingmen  have  to  die 
properly  to  be  dead  by  these  theories.  These  writers  can 
raise  the  dead  with  their  metaphysics  if  you  will  be  kind 
enough  not  to  look  at  the  hearses.  They  are  paid  for 
this  by  our  cur  aristocracy. 


248  MARRIAGE    AND    RACE    DEATH 

But  I  have  given  case  after  case  of  individuals  killed, 
tortured,  destroyed  by  this  cur  aristocracy — destroyed 
by  their  hanging  to  wealth  they  cannot  eat.  To  the  fat 
theorist  on  his  university  couch  I  say  here  is  a  terrible 
series  of  men  murdered  by  this  economic  system,  I  give 
their  names,  the  day  they  died,  how  they  died,  you  can 
go  to  their  graves  and  verify,  you  cannot  lie  them  alive 
by  sociology,  I  tie  your  metaphysical  minds  to  the  fact 
and  you  shall  not  theorize  yourselves  loose  from  it. 

Then  I  have  given  fact  on  fact  of  the  lording  and 
swilling  of  the  rich  while  these  poor  were  dying.  I  tie 
your  minds  to  this  truth  next,  economist  metaphysi- 
cians, and  you  shall  not  squirm  out  of  it.  I  know  that 
you  want  to  get  away  into  the  upper  air  of  theories  of 
distribution,  out  of  gunshot  of  facts  and  life,  you  know 
you  are  safe  up  there  and  that  nobody  can  catch  you 
as  you  dodge  and  dip  and  double  on  yourselves  in  flight. 
But  you  cannot  get  up  there  if  I  tie  you  to  this  fearful 
series  of  the  dwarfed  and  murdered,  and  to  the  rich  who 
own  and  domineer  American  wealth  and  swill  it  as 
others  shrivel. 

What  then  is  the  third  and  final  fact  in  this  chain 
to  which  I  hold  you?  That  the  rich  dwarfed  and  killed 
these  dead  men.  That  they  are  dwarfing  and  killing 
men  now  alive.  You  are  paid  to  prove  this  not  so,  but 
I  will  prove  to  you  that  it  is  so.  There  are  two  ways 
for  curs  to  kill  fellow  dogs:  by  fastening  their  fangs 
in  their  throats  and  goring  them  to  death,  or  by  seizing 
the  bones  that  feed  them  and  standing  guard  over  the 
bones  until  the  famishing  dogs  die.  Each  mode  is  strict 
murder.  Our  rich  use  both  methods,  but  the  second  is 
more  popular  and  palatable.  It  is  painful  to  see  men 


OUR     DEGENERATE     ARISTOCRACY  249 

bleed  to  death,  but  not  painful  to  starve  them  to  death 
if  you  live  three  blocks  off  out  of  sight.  The  rich  place 
several  blocks  between  them  and  the  victims  they 
murder.  But  they  corral  and  swill  wealth  which  would 
keep  these  poor  alive  and  develop  them,  and  therefore 
they  murder  them.  This  is  the  essence  of  the  cur-human 
aristocracy.  It  does  not  lessen  the  personal  responsi- 
bility of  these  curs  that  many  other  humans  would  like 
to  be  curs  and  do  what  they  are  doing.  These  are  doing 
it,  and  we  do  not  punish  men  for  the  crimes  they  would 
like  to  commit,  we  punish  them  for  those  they  do  com- 
mit; we  punish  the  actual  committers. 

Now  how  shall  we  drive  these  false  economic  prophets 
who  are  the  hired  Hessians  of  the  rich,  out  of  the  uni- 
versities? The  answer  is,  The  people  must  write  a  new 
political  economy  by  action.  The  universities  are  the 
enemies  of  the  common  people  because  they  teach 
doctrines  that  chain  them,  and  the  people  must  reject 
and  repudiate  the  teachings  of  these  institutions.  The 
Political  Economy  which  the  masses  must  write  by  ac- 
tion is  the  Abolition  of  the  Rich.  If  there  were  no  Cur 
Aristocracy  to  give  funds  to  professors  to  defend  them, 
there  would  be  no  professors  defending  cur  aristocracies. 
Economic  authors  would  then  be  writing  political  econo- 
mies for  mankind. 

Cato  said  in  every  speech  on  whatever  subject,  But 
Carthage  must  fall.  Every  man  of  the  common  people 
must  say  every  day  a  hundred  times  to  every  friend, 
neighbor  and  stranger,  But  the  Rich  must  fall.  He  will 
be  writing  and  creating  the  new  political  economy  and 
jsaving  the  people  from  murder  by  the  cur  aristocracy. 
He  will  be  delivering  the  race  from  chains;  evolution 
will  begin. 


250  MARRIAGE    AND    RACE    DEATH 

A  public  teacher  who  has  seemingly  lost  his  progi 
give  spirit,  Professor  Adler  of  Columbia  University,  says 
that  in  the  present  crisis  "it  devolves  on  the  educated 
class  to  keep  the  masses  sane."  But  who  will  first  make 
the  educated  classes  sane?  They  have  accepted  the  lazy 
lucrative  post  of  hired  guards  of  the  cur  aristocracy; 
they  have  been  traitors  to  their  opportunity;  I  know  of 
no  class  less  to  be  trusted  than  they.  The  social  science 
professors  are  educated  to  destroy  the  character  of  their 
students.  Education  is  the  administration  of  toxins  to 
youth  against  their  impulses  to  justice  and  noble  con- 
duct in  life.  Students  are  taken  up  into  the  clouds  of 
theory  by  their  economic  professors  and  taught  to  dodge 
facts  and  truth.  And  these  are  the  "sane"  leaders 
turned  out  to  lead  the  masses.  There  is  only  one  touch- 
stone to  apply  to  the  educated.  When  an  educated  man 
proves  by  his  work  that  he  is  determined  on  the  aboli- 
tion of  the  rich,  then  believe  in  him.  He  is  a  man  whose 
efforts  will  contribute  to  the  fall  of  swilling  and  tyranny. 
But  let  the  masses  believe  in  no  one,  educated  or  un- 
educated, who  does  not  stand  unshaken  for  the  fall  of 
the  rich  and  their  cur  system  of  commerce  and  life. 

Since  we  have  these  cloud-manufacturing  economists 
to  put  to  flight,  let  us  examine  a  definite  cloud  factory-- 
Harvard. What  it  calls  education  is  elaborate  mental 
vaccination  against  truth.  There  is  nothing  its  profes- 
sors so  fear  as  that  the  students  will  catch  the  disease 
of  truth.  Their  method  to  prevent  them  from  getting  it 
is  to  inoculate  their  minds  with  a  complex  of  conflicting 
theories  which  the  professors  do  not  understand  them- 
selves. They  are  not  understandable  because  they  are 
gibberish.  But  that  is  the  ground  of  their  worth.  They 


OUR    DEGENERATE     ARISTOCRACY  251 

prove  to  the  students  that  a  man  cannot  have  a  strong, 
moving  conviction  without  being  a  fool.  Least  of  all 
can  he  have  a  conviction  about  social  justice  and  truth, 
which  ifi  as  bad  as  having  small-pox.  A  professor  who 
could  not  prevent  that  would  lose  his  license  to  vaccinate 
their  minds  against  manliness.  A  professor  of  any  branch 
of  social,  economic  or  moral  science  at  Harvard,  must 
have  a  great  mental  bowel  out  of  which  to  spin  cobweb 
metaphysic  theories  about  society  to  prove  that  the  rich 
have  a  Divine  Right  to  rob.  Until  a  student's  mind  is 
super-soaked  with  these  gibberish  theories  he  is  battered 
and  massaged  with  the  statement  that  he  is  incompetent 
to  have  a  right  thought  or  a  sound  instinct  as  to  social 
justice  and  truth.  If  the  professor  makes  the  students 
believe  him  he  earns  his  pay  from  the  rich,  which  comes 
in  endowments.  Nearly  all  colleges  are  under  the  same 
rich  men's  bribe.  I  specify  Harvard  because  of  its  vulgar 
pompous  pride  in  killing  truth.  Some  colleges  are 
ashamed,  but  Harvard  puffs  and  struts  and  brags  of  its 
ignominious  r61e.  It  glories  in  its  indecency  and  shrieks 
out  its  itch  for  public  applause  of  its  dishonor. 

A  very  brief  prescription  will  cure  these  apostate 
colleges.  Do  not  send  your  sons  to  them  to  be  ruined. 
They  will  be  spoiled  if  you  send  them,  educated  into 
theory-stuffed  scientific  toadies.  The  power  of  conviction 
and  manly  action  will  be  metaphysicked  out  of  them. 
If  parents  would  strike  against  these  servile  academies, 
they  would  soon  have  too  few  students  to  keep  their  floors 
warm :  they  would  then  have  to  clean  out  the  rubbish  and 
falsity  they  call  education,  or  permanently  close.  We 
should  be  much  better  without  universities  than  with 
such  universities  as  we  have. 


252  MARRIAGE    AND    RACE    DEATH 

You  are  much  less  dependent  on  these  rich  men's 
shoddy  foundations  than  you  imagine.  One  true  man  as 
an  educator  is  worth  an  entire  faculty  of  snobs,  toadies 
and  silken  apologists  of  thieves.  Withdraw  your  sons 
from  present  pseudo-colleges,  collect  a  few  genuine  men 
for  instructors,  and  if  you  cannot  do  better  to  begin  with 
open  your  new  universities  in  barns.  This  is  feasible 
and  you  can  instantly  put  an  end  to  this  education  of 
lies.  China  has  just  abanoned  her  antediluvian  educa- 
tional system,  let  America  do  the  same.  The  power  to 
do  it  lies  with  the  common  people  who  feed  the  colleges 
with  their  sons,  and  who  suppose  that  their  coming  out 
mentally  and  morally  emascuated  is  being  educated. 

Harvard  has  a  special  quarter  for  rich  men's  scions, 
called  The  Gold  Coast,  Here  are  the  palace  dormitories 
of  the  milliardaire  caste,  where  splendor  reigns  and 
wealth,  tapewormed  from  the  working  class,  is  sumptu- 
ously burned.  They  have  a  special  educational  function, 
these  rich  youths :  they  are  missionaries  to  teach  common 
youths  to  knuckle  down  to  rich  masters  through  life. 
These  are  the  children  of  wealth  kings  whom  the  other 
students  will  carry  on  their  backs  as  long  as  they  live. 
The  university  metaphysics  has  the  task  of  intellectually 
convincing  the  common  students  that  it  is  a  right  system 
for  them  to  carry  the  masters  on  their  backs,  but  it  is 
well  to  habituate  them  by  an  object  lesson.  The  uni- 
versity therefore  fits  out  a  line  of  palaces  where  the 
crown  princes  of  the  wealth-kings  may  reside  and  pub- 
licly burn  wealth  with  the  approval  of  the  faculty,  to 
accustom  the  mere  common  students  to  the  spectacle  and 
"justice"  of  burning  wealth.  Thus  the  student  mass  will 
learn  to  be  "sane"  and  not  throw  wealth  lords  off  of  their 


OUR     DEGENERATE     ARISTOCRACY  253 

backs  later.  And  you,  the  common  rabble  of  the  United 
States,  80,000,000  in  number,  send  your  sons  here  and 
pay  to  have  them  ground  for  four  years  through  these 
emasculating  influences ! 

Look  at  it.  At  one  end  of  any  rich  college  square 
are  the  palaces  of  our  crown  princes  where  wealth  pro- 
duced by  the  working  class  and  needed  by  them  for  very 
life  and  evolution,  is  burned  prodigally  by  these  gay 
lords.  It  represents  in  miniature  society  outside  where 
the  same  gorgeous  squandering  on  a  macrocosmic  scale 
is  done  by  the  parent  kings  of  these  princes.  The  col- 
lege sanctions  and  justifies  the  great  robbery  squander- 
ing system  without  by  nursing  this  representative  sample 
of  it  within;  it  stands  for  the  whole  shameful  plan  of 
the  predatory  rich  riding  as  masters  on  the  population's 
back. 

And  in  its  classrooms  it  has  men  paid  to  manufacture 
theories  to  debauch  the  students'  minds  into  believing 
this  right.  Across  the  college  square  from  the  crown 
prince  palaces  you  will  find  Professors  Taussig  and  Car- 
ver, Clark,  Hollender,  Patten,  Seligman,  Hadley,  Small, 
and  a  legion  of  them,  laboriously  devising  economic  meta- 
physics to  destroy  every  student's  common  sense  and 
tame  him  down  into  a  believing  reverencing  slave  to  these 
wealth  lords  who  ride  his  back.  Then  he  will  graduate 
upon  the  outer  population  who  have  not  enjoyed  the 
privilege  of  having  their  common  sense  extirpated  by 
education,  and  he  will  extirpate  it  for  them.  This  is 
what  Prof.  Adler  calls  keeping  the  masses  sane.  It  is 
making  them  insane.  It  is  searing  out  their  common 
sense, 


254  MARRIAGE    AND    RACE    DEATH 

Thus  college  students  are  moulded  to  feel  that  their 
life  duty  is  carrying  and  feeding  parasites;  so  moulding 
them  is  the  vital  and  intrinsic  business  of  the  college 
professor.  These  professors  play  a  shameful  part:  they 
are  the  underpinning  of  the  cur  aristocracy. 

They  are  small-minded  men;  razor-edged  to  slice  up 
theories  for  the  metaphysical  microscope,  but  not  liberal 
intelligences.  Therefore  they  are  just  the  men  that 
ought  to  be  kept  away  from  youths,  because  they  are 
thought-choppers  and  not  thought-builders.  Their  place 
is  in  logic  factories  and  statistic  mills.  No  man  should 
be  permitted  to  teach  youths  who  is  not  warmed  with 
the  spirit  of  making  the  system  of  human  life  better. 
But  our  college  professors  are  like  little  birds  pecking 
away  at  the  system  of  life  as  it  is,  trying  to  dig  out 
explanations  and  justifications  of  it.  Which  is  as  stupid 
as  a  drowning  man  trying  to  logically  explain  how  he 
came  in  the  water  instead  of  swimming. 


CHAPTER  XXIX. 

HOW    TO    RESTORE    THE    RACE. 

I  have  shown  that  the  cur  aristocrats  have  no  real 
power,  that  general  superstition  and  cowardice  alone 
give  them  the  shadow  of  power :  through  brain  deficiency 
there  are  too  few  people  in  all  the  eighty-three  million 
Americans  who  are  not  proud  and  willing  to  be  white 
slaves  of  commercial  ruffians. 

But  many  men  have  the  capacity  to  expand  their 
own  brains.  The  brain  may  undergo  transitions  from 
lower  to  higher  up  to  the  very  last  age  of  life.  If  I  did 
not  reckon  on  this  possibility  of  the  Americans  deciding 
to  grow  their  brains  yet  and  re-enter  the  race  arena  as 
a  permanent  factor,  I  should  be  scientifically  incom- 
plete. I  must,  therefore,  ask  how  the  cur  aristocracy 
may  be  immediately  abolished,  if  the  people  become 
mentally  alive,  to  stem  race  decay  and  lay  great  race 
foundations. 

It  is  a  most  simple  problem.  The  eighty  million  citi- 
zens should  say  to  the  commercial  bandits,  "Stop  where 
you  are  or  be  destroyed.  You  may  not  go  one  step  fur- 
ther in  the  absorption  of  our  wealth.  You  are  burning 
riches,  killing  liberty,  murdering  people — cease,  or  we 
will  crush  you." 

Are  these  strong  words?  Would  not  strong  words 
and  stronger  deeds  be  applied  to  ruffian  invaders?  These 

355 


256  MARRIAGE    AND    RACE    DEATH 

men  are  ruffian  invaders.  I  have  proved  it.  You  can 
see  it  by  half  opening  your  own  eyes.  The  national 
edifice  is  burning  and  there  must  be  deeds.  Are  you 
going  to  let  the  nation  burn  up  and  lie  on  your  backs 
for  fear  if  you  speak  you  may  say  something  forcible? 
You  must  not  only  say  but  do  things  with  a  force  that 
will  put  out  the  fire.  Away  with  your  cowardly  scruples 
and  hypocritic  proprieties !  Abolish  these  invading  com- 
mercial ruffians  or  be  trampled  under  their  iron  feet 
and  die  a  dog's  death.  It  has  come  to  this. 

Through  the  country  the  people  should  rise  to  organize 
and  put  down  these  invaders.  It  is  insane  to  give  them 
any  more  time  to  rob,  debauch  and  assassinate.  They 
have  reached  their  term.  By  procrastination  we  are  en- 
abling them  to  entrench  themselves  with  wealth  and 
power  to  wage  civil  war  to  rivet  their  tyranny.  Were  we 
awake  the  bells  would  be  ringing  in  every  village  sum- 
moning the  people  to  eradicate  these  tyrants.  In  city, 
country  and  town  the  intelligent  should  gather  in  leagues 
to  waken  the  sleeping  so  that  ere  long  the  bells  will 
be  sounding  for  a  national  uprising. 

Let  the  people  give  this  proposition  to  the  commercial 
ruffians :  Make  over  to  us  the  title  of  the  wealth  you  have 
stolen  from  us.  You  can  now  do  this  voluntarily  and 
gracefully — if  you  decline,  you  will  later  be  compelled. 
Having  done  it  you  will  be  no  longer  the  owners  of  the 
nation  and  its  wealth:  you  will  be  the  temporary  ad- 
ministrators of  the  latter.  For  this  administration  you 
will  be  paid  liberally  while  you  live,  upon  the  scale  that 
servants  of  the  United  States  are  paid  for  administering 
its  affairs.  Is  a  man  worth  more  to  mankind,  legiti- 
mately, serving  his  own  pocket-book  than  he  is  serving 


HOW    TO    RESTORE    THE    RACE  257 

the  people?  To  aid  you  in  this  wealth  administration 
a  non-partisan  administrative  board  of  citizens  should 
be  installed. 

Thus  the  restoration  of  the  wealth  to  its  owners  will 
take  place  without  jolt  or  shock,  by  the  signing  of  a 
few  deeds.  It  will  be  as  if  the  owner  of  a  business  had 
gone  to  Europe  leaving  his  affairs  in  the  hands  of  a 
clerk.  The  clerk,  thinking  the  owner  had  forgotten  his 
property,  appropriates  it  with  all  its  revenues.  But  one 
day  the  owner  returns  and  everything  has  to  be  restored. 
The  clerk  signs  over,  and  there  is  neither  jolt  nor  shock 
in  the  restitution.  The  good-natured  owner  does  not  even 
discharge  his  employe,  but  he  keeps  a  sharp  watch  on  him 
to  see  that  he  does  not  steal  the  business  again.  For 
stealing  becomes  a  habit  and  the  thief  comes  to  look  upon 
the  owner  who  interferes  with  his  robberies  as  a  criminal. 

So  in  this  country  all  business  will  move  smoothly 
on  without  a  ripple,  but  the  United  States  will  have 
passed  from  the  Cur  Aristocracy  back  to  the  people  of 
the  United  States.  There  will  follow  a  great  reorganiza- 
tion of  incomes,  a  great  change  in  the  aims  of  industry, 
a  wide  increase  of  public  revenues,  but  no  break,  no  stop- 
page, no  sudden  alteration  in  the  process  and  mechanism 
of  industry.  This  mechanism  would  afterwards,  logically 
and  evolutionally,  be  adjusted  to  the  fact  that  the  title 
of  the  wealth  had  returned  to  the  people.  When  such 
of  the  present  wealth  owners  who  are  not  incompetent 
had  served  their  due  course  as  its  administrators  the 
system  of  administration  would  be  gradually  readjusted 
to  the  new  facts. 

This  is  the  only  honorable  or  safe  way  left  to  our  rich 
masters.  They  may  reject  it.  The  gods  make  mad  those 


258  MAKRIAGE    AND    RACE    DEATH 

whom  they  will  destroy.  It  will  then  be  for  the  people 
to  take  over  the  title  to  the  wealth  without  further  wait- 
ing upon  the  robbers  for  consent.  It  should  be  accom- 
plished as  a  vast  popular  rising  and  demonstration,  to 
serve  notice  of  annihilation  upon  all  men  in  the  future 
contemplating  robbery  of  the  people.  There  is  the  ballot 
box  waiting  to  have  this  popular  decree  registered. 

But  the  people  are  by  no  means  slaves  to  politics  in 
this  matter.  Every  slave  in  the  United  States,  over  80,- 
000,000  slaves  in  all,  is  grinding  to  contribute  his  share 
to  the  fabulous  incomes  of  our  invading  commercial  ruf- 
fians. Big  masses  of  this  contributed  wealth  are  burned 
in  the  riotous  orgies  and  criminal  pomps  by  this  great 
cur  aristocracy  while  people  famish  and  mankind  dwarfs. 
Why  work  to  create  wealth  for  combustion  by  these 
humanity-killers  f  It  is  a  crime. 

The  American  slaves  may  then  organize  for  a  uni- 
versal stoppage  of  work  for  wealth-burners  on  a  given 
day.  Let  it  be  published  that  on  that  day  the  title  of 
the  people's  wealth  passes  from  the  commercial  plunder- 
ers to  the  nation,  that  work  shall  not  be  resumed  until 
the  transfer  is  made,  when  the  people  will  work  for  them- 
selves, as  they  would  do  if  the  rich  were  intelligent 
enough  to  convey  the  title  voluntarily. 

The  universal  strike  of  all  classes  is  an  unsurpassed 
revolutionary  instrument.  It  is  instantaneous,  it  is  com- 
plete, it  is  final.  It  brushes  aside  the  ponderous  intri- 
cacies of  politics  evolved  in  corruption  and  readily  sub- 
ject to  the  leadership  of  the  low.  Politics  has  become 
the  fatting-ground  of  vile  and  cunning  tricksters, 
universal  strike  makes  the  adjustment  industrial  no 
political.  If  the  people  say,  "On  a  certain  date  w< 


HOW    TO    RESTORE    THE    RACE  ^    259 

cease  working  for  capitalists  forever,"  on  that  day  capi- 
talists will  drop  out,  the  capitalist  system  will  be  ended, 
without  bullet,  blood,  or  political  vote.  The  people 
would  then  form  a  joint  stock  company  of  all  capital 
— every  man  and  woman  in  the  country  equal  share- 
holders. The  act  would  be  as  instant  and  simple  as  the 
signing  of  deeds.  It  would  be  industrial,  not  political. 
But  it  would  accomplish  instantly  all  the  purposes  of  a 
laborious  and  lumbering  political  revolution.  It  would 
be  a  political  revolution  accomplished  industrially.  And 
the  danger  of  political  traps  and  betrayals  would  be 
avoided. 

The  greatest  thing  in  the  world  will  be  a  world  strike 
for  an  absolute  change  of  the  world  system.  The  80,- 
000,000  American  slaves  have  also  this  road  to  freedom 
open  to  them. 

They  have  furthermore  the  power  to  refuse  the  pay- 
ment of  taxes  to  these  rich  men's  Congresses  and  Legis- 
latures. This  is  a  mighty  engine  of  so-called  passive 
rebellion,  although  in  reality  very  active.  The  govern- 
ment cannot  be  carried  on  without  taxes,  the  rich  glide 
out  of  theirs;  if  the  common  people  will  not  pay,  the 
Rich  Men's  Government  very  soon  runs  into  the  ground. 
It  must  vacate  and  turn  the  nation  over  to  the  83,000,000 
common  people,  or  it  must  forcibly  seize  and  sell  out  the 
common  people's  property.  Suppose  now  the  common 
people  universally  refuse  to  buy  any  tax-sold  property; 
the  government  has  no  way  but  to  sell  it  over  to  the  rich, 
who  then  rapidly  become  visible  possessors  of  everything. 
Revolution  would  occur  instantly.  The  rich  robbers 
would  be  expropriated  and  properly  disposed  of. 


260  MARRIAGE    AND    RACE    DEATH 

There  are  at  least  ten  million  people  in  the  country 
who  from  poverty  do  not  have  enough  to  eat;  there  are 
at  least  ten  million  more,  perhaps  twenty,  who  from 
poverty  do  not  have  the  right  kind  of  things  to  eat ;  the 
beginning  of  the  starvation  of  all  of  these  is  mental — 
the  trance-conviction  that  it  is  wicked  to  annihilate  para- 
sites. There  are  fifty  million  more  walking  the  tight 
rope  of  economic  dependence  and  semi-poverty  who  sym- 
pathize with  these  twenty  million  in  positive  want.  Now 
the  20,000,000  can  initiate  the  revolution  and  the  rest 
will  sympathize  with  and  support  them.  The  unem- 
ployed, half  employed,  irregularly  employed  and  poorly 
employed  should  combine  in  a  vast  national  organization 
to  hold  monster  demonstrations  and  dispel  the  rich  men's 
lies  about  prosperity ;  they  should  make  it  a  scandal  and 
danger  for  this  rich  men's  monarchy  to  go  on. 

The  Eussian  peasants  gained  their  emancipation  from 
serfdom  by  irrepressible  insurrection.  Milyoukov  thus 
describes  it :  "And  there  was  now  no  end  of  small  insur- 
rections of  peasants  over  the  whole  country.  Year  after 
year  these  insurrections  and  agrarian  troubles  repeated 
themselves  with  a  regularity  which  needed  no  Quetelet  or 
Buckle  to  explain  their  causes  constantly  at  work.  There 
was  no  mistake  about  it:  slavery  was  the  reason,  and 
slavery  had  to  be  abolished.  It  was,  as  we  have  seen, 
the  threatening  attitude  of  the  peasants  that  gave  no  rest 
to  the  government,  and  finally  forced  it  to  proceed  to 
emancipation"*  The  peasants  then  made  the  mistake 
of  not  continuing  and  increasing  their  insurrections, 
burnings  and  pillagings,  which  would  have  extorted  full 
political  and  economic  freedom  from  their  masters.  By 


*  Russia  and  Its  Crisis,  p.  359. 


HOW    TO    RESTORE    THE    RACE  261 

steady  insurrection  against  the  rich  and  their  govern- 
ment the  serfs  of  the  United  States  could  soon  regain 
their  nation  and  their  rights.* 

The  20,000,000  half-employed  and  unnourished 
should  commit  small  thefts  and  property  destructions 
in  order  to  fill  and  overflow  the  prisons  and  be  fed. 
Armies  of  men  now  half-employed  would  have  to  be 
hired  and  supported  to  arrest  and  guard  these  delin- 
quents. A  broken  store  window,  a  chicken  taken  from 
a  counter,  or  even  a  stolen  hen's  egg,  would  give  a  poor 
man  months  and  perhaps  years  of  home  and  support 
by  the  community.  If  20,000,000  adopted  this  plan  the 
robber  economic  system  would  have  to  be  revolutionized 
instantly  to  give  the  millions  means  to  earn  real  livings 
outside  of  jails. 

In  Boston  during  January  ('06)  George  H.  Martin 
was  sentenced  to  eight  to  ten  years  in  State  Prison  for 
smashing  a  market  window  with  intent  to  steal  a  turkey 
for  Christmas.  By  intercession  of  the  district  attorney 
he  was  let  off  with  four  to  five  years.  This  clearly  shows 
how  easily  the  20,000,000  underfed  Americans  can  obtain 
free  home  and  food  for  five  years.  They  need  only  break 
a  pane  of  glass  with  intent  to  steal  a  hen.  When  they 
come  out  five  years  hence  they  can  break  another  pane 
and  go  back.  If  the  States  require  them  to  work  in 
prison  factories,  it  will  transfer  manufacturing  from 
the  rich  private  owners  to  the  State  Prisons  and  to  State 
ownership,  wiping  out  the  business  of  so  many  robber 
corporations.  If  the  State  undertakes  to  carry  these 
works  on  for  private  owners  by  contract  "convict" 


*For  development  of  the  principle  of  resistance,  see  the  author's 
Human  Submission. 


262  MARRIAGE    AND    RACE    DEATH 

labor  the  convicts  can  strike.  Twenty  million  prisoners 
for  breaking  a  pane  of  glass  with  intent  to  steal  food, 
on  strike  would  be  a  volcanic  spectacle.  The  States 
wTould  probably  decide  to  abolish  contract  prison  labor. 
I  name  these  methods  of  revolution  to  show  that  the 
people  hold  the  situation  perfectly  in  their  hands. 
Everything  can  be  changed,  almost  in  a  day.  Nothing- 
is  needed  but  the  breaking  up  of  the  tapeworm  fetish. 
The  tapeworm  fetish  is  the  set  idea  that  80,000,000  people 
are  put  in  this  wrorld  and  country  with  a  duty  to  feed 
and  carry  a  few  thousand  consuming  tapeworm  rich. 


CHAPTER   XXX. 

THE    MORALITY    OF    SOCIAL    WAR. 

At  all  times  morality  is  undergoing  change.  The 
American  rich  in  the  last  three  decades  have  nibbed  the 
ten  commandments  out.  By  destroying  the  tables  of 
stone  they  have  taken  squatter  possession  of  the  United 
States.  But  they  have  succeeded  in  this  act  of  piracy 
only  because  all  others  thought  it  their  duty  to  keep 
the  ten  commandments  toward  these  rich.  But  toward 
a  burglar  and  assassin  ordinary  rules  of  morality  cease. 
For  the  burglar  and  assassin  has  rejected  the  ten  com- 
mandments as  to  others,  and  to  save  themselves  others 
must  treat  him  as  the  bloodthirsty  beast  he  has  chosen 
to  be. 

The  condition  is  this:  the  rich  have  taken  up  arms 
against  the  people,  are  making  war  on  them,  are  plun- 
dering, pillaging,  rifling,  stripping  them,  killing  many 
as  straight  as  if  they  were  shot.  In  other  words,  they 
have  inaugurated  the  morality  of  war.  Now  it  is  ridicu- 
lous for  the  people  to  sit  still  saying  over  the  ten  com- 
mandments and  be  robbed  and  shot  dead  with  want. 
They  must  adopt  war  tactics  toward  the  pirates.  Schwab 
sleeps  and  makes  $1,135,750  in  thirty-six  hours  by  a 
rise  in  stocks.  This  is  damnable  robbery.  Schwab  is  a 
pirate.  There  are  several  thousand  of  these  Schwabs 

263 


264  MARRIAGE    AND    RACE    DEATH 

who  are  pillaging  the  country  with  the  cutlass  of  finance 
and  the  stolen  pistol  of  law. 

Let  us  see  the  compact  with  hell  these  pirates  have 
made.  "Is  it  worth  while  trying  to  save  the  sick  children 
of  the  poor?"  asked  a  New  York  minister,  William  K. 
Huntington,  after  visiting  the  latest  dog  show  of  the  rich. 
"The  man  in  the  street  says  'No,'  he  continued.  At  the 
bench  show  I  was  struck  with  the  magnificence  of  the 
thing,  the  vast  amount  of  care,  attention  and  money 
lavished  on  tJie  dogs.  *  *  *  One  having  its  toilet 
made  with  a  brush  and  comb,  and  another — a  Chinese 
dog — resting  against  a  background  of  Chinese  tapestry, 
the  happy  creature  feeding  out  of  a  blue  willow  pattern 
dish,  I  did  wonder  if  a  fraction  of  the  money  might  not 
have  been  better  devoted  to  the  care  of  little  children. 
The  cost  of  getting  these  admirable  dogs  to  the  Garden 
would  run  this  [Post  Graduate]  hospital  for  a  year." 

While  human  babies  of  the  people  who  make  the 
wealth  die  slowly  of  innutrition — starvation — the  rich 
take  the  wealth  from  them  and  squander  it  on  their 
princely  dogs.  And  the  clergyman  thinks  a  fraction  of 
this  wealth  might  perhaps  be  better  devoted  to  human 
babies.  And  another  New  York  clergyman,  George  E. 
Vandewater,  says,  "The  right  to  make  millions  without 
labor  cannot  be  withheld  from  the  wealthy  *  *  *" 
We  shall  see  if  it  can  not.  There  certainly  will  be  civil 
war  to  do  it  if  it  can  be  done  in  no  other  way.  Piracy 
to  pamper  rich  men's  dogs  like  kings  wrill  certainly  end 
in  a  revolution  of  extermination  if  the  rich  do  not  speedily 
cease  plundering  and  surrender  their  mountains  of  loot. 
I  can  assure  the  rich  that  this  is  fast  growing  to  be  the 
feeling  and  resolution  of  all  classes  towrard  them.  There 


THE    MORALITY    OF    SOCIAL    WAR  265 

is  a  rising  rage,  a  wonder,  a  stupefaction  at  their  dizzy 
insolence.  I  forewarn  these  fool  rich  that  this  rage  wrill 
break  and  grind  them  to  atoms  if  they  do  not  repent. 

The  morality  of  these  rich  who  have  declared  wrar  on 
the  United  States  is  the  wiping  out  of.  the  ten  command- 
ments. Now  wealth  gotten  by  robbery  belongs  not  to 
the  pirate  but  to  the  robbed.  The  robbed  are  morally 
justified  in  taking  this  wealth  where  they  can  find  it. 
Their  duty  is  to  take  it.  In  a  state  of  war  the  command- 
ment "Thou  shalt  not  steal"  does  not  exist;  and  as  the 
rich  have  declared  and  organized  war  against  the  people 
of  this  nation,  the  stolen  property  of  these  robbers  is 
contraband  and  may  be  rightfully  seized  by  any  citizen 
who  can  lay  his  hands  on  it. 


CHAPTER  XXXI. 

THE  IMPOSSIBILITY  OF  MARRIAGE. 

In  a  society  of  the  kind  depicted,  which  we  have 
shown  to  be  the  essence  of  this  country,  marriage  be- 
comes impossible.  The  rich  class  woman  sells  herself  to 
pomp  and  protean  dissipations  and  depravities;  the 
middle  class  woman  sells  herself  for  support  and  strenu- 
ous mimicy  of  the  rich :  neither  set  thinks  of  race,  they 
limit  their  child  output  more  and  more,  while  nature 
punishes  them  both  for  their  prevention  of  life  by  taking 
away  their  powrer  to  reproduce  life. 

The  working  class  woman,  however,  the  third  and 
last  female  group,  has  entered  on  a  new  and  startling 
moral  career.  She  has  discovered  that  love  may  be  had 
without  marriage  and  yet  with  self-respect;  and  has  de- 
cided that  female  "unchastity"  is  not  unvirtuous.  She 
has  adopted  the  ethics  of  her  father  and  brothers.  This 
is  a  radical  moral  volte  face  which  must  now  be  accepted 
as  a  fact.  It  completely  shatters  the  family,  which  may 
be  considered  as  good  as  dead. 

Of  the  causes  of  workwomen's  stepping  out  of  the 
old  sexual  traces  we  may  name  two.  As  the  cur  aristoc- 
racy grew  up  it  sucked  wealth  from  every  family  in  the 
land  and  burned  it  in  its  orgies  and  pomps.  Under  the 
new  strain  to  live  the  head  or  father  of  the  family  lost 
power  to  support  his  home  group  and  all  its  member 
had  to  scatter  out  for  self-snstenaneo,  leaving  the  ol 

266 


THE    IMPOSSIBILITY    OF    MARRIAGE  267 

family  a  mere  name  and  empty  shell.  The  boys  and  the 
girls  of  it,  now  self-supporting  in  their  narrow  way, 
asked  themselves  why  they  should  marry  to  establish 
these  shells  of  home,  and  saw  the  absurdity  of  it.  Thrown 
together  industrially  in  great  freedom  they  discovered 
that  it  was  easy  to  arrange  for  the  instincts  of  love 
without  marriage,  which  took  away  the  last  reason  for 
establishing  the  emptied  shell  of  the  home.  The  em- 
ployers, too,  had  great  need  of  the  love  instincts  of  these 
girls,  and  utilized  them  abundantly.  With  the  attractive 
girls  they  made  sexual  concession  one  of  the  conditions 
of  keeping  their  work. 

The  other  cause  was  the  women's  inspired  insight 
that  they  had  a  right  to  life.  Men  had  heretofore  had  a 
right  to  life,  but  not  women :  now  women  found  it  within 
their  reach  and  they  took  it.  The  right  not  merely  to 
free  sexual  life  in  the  same  way  as  their  fathers  and 
brothers,  but  to  many  delights  of  existence  from  which 
the  cramped  character  of  the  home,  especially  the  poor 
man's  home,  had  debarred  them. 

These  forces  disintegrated  the  principle  of  female 
'virtue' :  workingwomen  not  only  disregarded  it  in  act, 
but  they  learned  to  feel  that  they  were  not  doing  wrong. 
We  are  now  in  the  midst  of  this  alteration  of  woman's 
moral  instinct,  but  the  conquest  of  the  old  instinct  is 
virtually  accomplished.  One  workingwoman  who  has 
been  a  student  of  the  conditions  of  her  sex  denies  that 
five  per  cent,  of  the  working  class  women  are  chaste  in 
the  old  sense.*  If  this  seems  at  first  unbelieveable,  we 
must  reflect  that  all  the  important  conditions  of  a  work- 
ing girl's  life  make  for  sexual  liberty.  The  attractive 

*I  do  not,  of  course,  affirm  percentages,  but  say  of  women  who 
earn  their  bread,  taken  as  a  class,  that  the  warp  and  woof  of  their 
minds  on  this  subject  has  profoundly  changed. 


2t>8  MARRIAGE    AND    RACE    DEATH 

girls  are  beset  by  employers,  employers'  sons  and  rela- 
tives, who  have  influence  in  the  keeping  or  discharging 
of  girls,  and  by  the  whole  brigade  of  superior  employes 
whose  personal  favor  is  weighty  for  those  in  lower  posi- 
tions. A  girl  who  must  work  to  live  may  lose  her  place 
ten  times  to  keep  her  'virtue/  but  the  eleventh  time  she 
will  lose  her  'virtue'  to  keep  her  place.  Human  endur- 
ance wears  out. 

Now  I  wish  to  make  it  clear  that  in  this  process  the 
girls  and  women  of  the  working  class  are  essentially 
blameless.  They  did  not  spurn  the  home  and  go  out 
and  throw  awray  their  virtue,  but  they  were  driven  out 
to  earn  bread,  and  a  big  part  of  them  found  that  they 
could  not  earn  bread  and  keep  their  'virtue.'  Another 
great  part  of  them  found  that  it  was  a  farce  to  marry 
and  set  up  the  dummy  of  a  home  like  that  which  they 
had  been  forced  out  of,  and  they  had  to  choose  between 
being  celibates  with  a  starved  life,  and  taking  love  in 
another  way. 

They  did  right  to  take  love  in  that  other  way,  because 
society  possesses  no  right  to  starve  its  members  of  love. 
I  hold  the  working  class  wromen  in  their  abandonment 
of  the  old  notion  of  sexual  morality  as  perfectly  pure. 

But  let  us  see  who  caused  them  to  do  so,  that  if  any 
think  there  is  blame  they  may  know  whose  the  blame 
is.  It  was  the  cur  aristocracy.  By  sucking  up  and 
burning  wealth  it  broke  down  the  American  home,  de- 
stroyed it,  and  drove  its  daughters  to  liberty  in  love. 
Every  supporter  and  tolerator  of  the  cur  aristocracy 
and  its  wealth  system  was,  however,  contributingly 
responsible.  If  sexual  virtue  has  been  renounced  as  a 
principle  by  working  class  women  these  people  have 
forced  them  to  it. 


THE     IMPOSSIBILITY     OF     MARRIAGE  269 

Some  think  this  a  great  step  in  growth  for  working 
women  by  freeing  them  from  the  yoke  of  sexual  princi- 
ples which  men  do  not  pretend  to  wear.  As  they 
have  cast  aside  the  superstitution  of  special  female  'vir- 
tue' they  are  now  less  handicapped  in  the  battle  for 
sexual  adjustment  with  men. 

But  of  two  results  there  is  no  doubt.  The  expulsion 
of  the  working  woman  from  family  life  estops  her  from 
child-bearing.  And  if  she  ever  returns  to  the  marriage 
relation  with  men  it  will  be  as  a  wholly  changed  creature 
from  what  she  left  it:  the  old  family  and  the  old  mar- 
riage cannot  be  restored.  The  effect  of  child-stoppage  is 
race  death.  And  since  the  great  section  of  the  women, 
the  working  women,  have  renounced  breeding  on  the 
old  terms,  it  seems  that  they  are  in  a  position  to  dictate 
the  terms  on  which  the  human  race  may  continue.  The 
working  woman  has  in  a  strange  way  been  pushed  to  the 
helm  of  race  destiny  and  can  force  out  of  man  almost 
any  concessions  that  she  will. 

Man  permitted  the  cur  class  and  the  cur  wealth  sys- 
tem to  grow.  He  did  not  foresee  that  in  doing  this  he 
was  losing  his  control  over  woman  by  emancipating  her 
sexually,  or  he  might  have  acted  differently;  he  might 
have  cut  out  the  cur  growth  in  its  start.  But  he  did  not, 
and  he  must  now  form  a  new  treaty  with  woman  if  the 
race  is  to  live;  and  she  will  not  in  these  negotiations  be 
the  subjugated  thing  he  knew.  He  may  have  to  concede 
a  new  form  of  world  to  her — she  has  it  in  her  power  to 
exact  that  world  of  him. 

One  tremendous  exaction,  however,  is  in  the  nature 
of  the  case,  whether  the  working  woman  consciously  wills 
it  or  not;  namely,  to  get  the  race  continued  man  will 


270  MARRIAGE    AND    RACE    DEATH 

have  to  destroy  the  cur  aristocracy  and  its  system, 
because  it  is  they  that  have  annihilated  the  family  as  a 
child-making  institution,  and  child-bringing  cannot  begin 
again  under  conditions  that  have  forced  it  to  cease. 

Man  is  in  this  dilemma:  if  he  will  not  grant  this 
concession,  that  of  destroying  the  cur  system  and  caste, 
all  the  better  women  will  remain  sterile  and  die  out; 
then  will  be  consummated  the  process  of  race  degenera- 
tion traced  in  earlier  pages  and  now  under  way.  Lower 
and  lower  men  and  women  will  breed,  and  they  will 
breed  not  from  love  but  from  lust ;  the  male  will  largely 
die  out  of  the  race  to  give  place  to  the  working  female 
who  will  steadily  sink  in  type;  male  parentage  will  be 
mainly  the  work  of  the  belly  billionaires  and  brute  mili- 
tary, with  women  essentially  prostitutes,  hired  to  be  pro- 
stitute mothers.  No  semblance  of  the  family  in  the 
masses  will  remain.  The  rich  class  will  interbreed  in 
families  without  love  merely  to  beget  swinish  inheritors 
of  their  wealth — their  offspring  will  be  the  most  detest- 
able objects.  The  breeding  between  their  parents  will 
be  a  bald  commercial  speculation.  All  superfluous  work- 
ing class  male  children  will  be  exterminated  by  poverty, 
syphilis  and  drink — chloroforming  with  torture. 

But  suppose  the  race  decides  to  survive  and  remove 
its  tapeworm  caste  so  that  it  can  survive ;  on  what  terms 
and  for  what  objects  will  the  sexes  then  return  into 
union?  They  will  not,  for  reasons  I  have  indicated, 
resume  the  old  system  of  relations.  The  inquiry  what  i* 
to  be  in  this  field  is  transcendently  vital.  Its  considera- 
tion is  reserved  for  another  volume. 


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